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Re: vi/vim/elvis/* (was "Re: Strip SIG on reply")



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:09:44PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2003-12-12, David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:59:34AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:

> > > > > > Solaris vi goes to the end of the word.
> > > > > > (It repeats the beeping - in vile I made that behavior optional).
> > > > >
> > > > > Okay, now this is getting even more interesting. . .
> > > > >
> > > > > Tru64's (BSD-based) VI stops at the start of the last word and starts
> 
> hmm - what version of Tru64?  I just tested 4.0d and 5.1, both stop
> at the end of the last word.

beats me ... orion.ramapo.edu no longer exists, having been replaced by
a cname to phobos.ramapo.edu (a brand spankin' new Solaris system).

> > > > A lot of Tru64 (OSF/1) is original implementation rather than being 
> > > > copied
> > > > from older sources.  While technically accurate, it tends to not have a
> > > > lot of legacy quirks.  (For the other extreme, see HPUX).
> > >
> > > Does anybody here have access to an HPUX VI?  I don't.
> >
> > The HP-UX 10.20 vi goes to the end of the word.
> 
> for the sake of completeness(*), AIX also does this.
> 
> (*) ignoring extinct or soon to be extinct vendors...

Wow ... now, I'm really wanting to test out that reconditioned original
VI ... can it be that an old version of Tru64 was the only one with the
"correct behavior," and that even it was "fixed" later?

I'd be really annoyed if the IEEE specs say that's what VI is supposed
to do. . .

 - Dave

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It's simple, Skyler.  You've seen what food processors do to food, right?

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