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Date:      25 Dec 2003 21:40:13 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        zhangweiwu@realss.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: need learning direction suggestions on using editors
Message-ID:  <44wu8kl2sy.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Law11-F90WiqJmdTcjJ00065e0d@hotmail.com>
References:  <Law11-F90WiqJmdTcjJ00065e0d@hotmail.com>

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"Zhang Weiwu" <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com> writes:

> Should I advance to vim right now or emacs, or is it that I didn't dig
> into vi deep enough to release its full power? I wonder how many
> programmers are still using 4BSD vi (compare to enchanced vi's)? Maybe
> none? Maybe many?

The vi in FreeBSD's base system is not derived from the original 
UC Berkeley distributions.  It is actually nvi.  [I don't know whether
you care about this distinction, but it seemed possible...]

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: 
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