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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:49:20 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        Oleg Petrov <dsacode@yandex.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvi for serious hacking
Message-ID:  <20051017144920.GA597@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <4352D860.000002.03681@tide.yandex.ru>
References:  <4352D860.000002.03681@tide.yandex.ru>

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote:
> Hello, FreeBSD people.
> 
> First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it
> for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable
> with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't
> default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second,
> remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small
> Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember.
> But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default 
> `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default 
> and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism.
> 
> So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general
> editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate:
>

I'd say "s/nvi/vim" (see http://www.vim.org/) if you want to really do
everything with your Vi.

Marc



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