http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/chapter/ch08.html

On 5/8/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote:
> Really? Wow, I've never heard of this before. I've never really been a
> vi guru by any stretch, but this is a real surprise. Sorry, everyone,
> and thanks for correcting me, Eric. I never bought the O'Reilly book, as
> I never pushed vi hard enough to need it. Between that, and some of the
> extensions being undocumented otherwise, it would explain my complete
> obliviousness to this.
>
> I'll have to look into this some.
>
> Rainer
>
> Eric Lowe wrote:
>
> >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 <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
>
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