Solaris vi does have some non-standard extensions, such as a tag stack. Some of 
them are undocumented. The O'Reilly vi book 
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/index.html) has a nice comparison and a 
description of the Solaris-specific features.

- Eric

----- Original Message ----
From: Rainer Heilke <[email protected]>
To: Blake <blake.irvin at gmail.com>
Cc: Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>; docs-discuss at opensolaris.org
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2007 10:45:56 PM
Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] Re: 'cheat sheets' for common administrative tasks

The vi that comes with Solaris 10 is the standard, generic vi from Bill 
Joy (the author, I believe). There is nothing Solaris-specific that I 
know of, and that's comparing it to the vi from FreeBSD as well.

You are correct about Linux; the distros/versions I've looked at all 
linked the vi command to vim. It was actually a source of frustration to 
me, as vim does not behave like vi.

Rainer

Blake wrote:

> How Solaris-specific is the vi that comes on Solaris 10?  I believe 
> the one I used on OS X is actually and alias to vim, and I'm guessing 
> a lot of Linux distros use vim also.  Vim is quite a bit different 
> that vi in some ways (like the way it treats the arrow keys).
>
> I'll see about linking to one of the docs you found.
> -- 
>
> blake/ 


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