Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:50:36 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103044621.768B@ncc-1701-d> In-Reply-To: <199601022053.PAA16382@ohm.merit.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, William Bulley wrote: > Subject says it all. Some modern flavours of UNIX on PCs use > a less that true Bill Joy derived version of vi. Which version > if vi does FreeBSD use in 2.1 release? FreeBSD uses, I believe, the "nvi" editor by Keith Bostic. Supposedly nvi is a "bug-for-bug compatible replacement for the original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) ex and vi programs." So far for me, it has seemed pretty faithful, except that, when you first enter a file, vi would show something like: "foo.c": 48 lines, 1020 characters at the bottom of the screen, whereas nvi shows: "README", unmodified: line 1 Kinda annoying, since the statistics (lines and characters) are usually important to me when editing something. But oh well. Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 TEL (805)564-1871 / FAX 564-2315 / WWW http://www.geopages.com/WallStreet/2072 PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or on Public Key Servers. ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. **
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