Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:34:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> Cc: Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... Message-ID: <20020514113434.A52937@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20020514111744.GA3048@foo31-146.visit.se>; from martin.karlsson@visit.se on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:17:44PM %2B0200 References: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> <20020514094901.GA82884@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020514111744.GA3048@foo31-146.visit.se>
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:17:44PM +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote: > * Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk> [2002-05-14 10.49 +0100]: > > In many Linux distributions, vi is aliased to VIM in the default shell > > profile. Therefore, you could be using and getting comfortable with VIM > > (which is not VI). FreeBSD comes with the real and original VI. > > I think Vi in FreeBSD actually is nvi (not that it matters, though). > :) Yes, this is correct. vi was the first whole-screen visual editor that Bill Joy hacked out in the late 70's; our (FBSD) vi/ex is a slight improvement written by Keith Bostic. <TRIVIA> One of nvi's improvements is, for example, that :wn will write a file and take you to the next in a series that you are editing at one time. Every Sun I've worked on uses the old vi that Bill gave up on; it is slightly less useful than nvi. </TRIVIA> gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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