On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 05:44:04PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I feel like the original vi is insufficient for my needs, but that Vim's > development doesn't exactly match my preferences. FreeBSD's nvi seems to > have moved in exactly the right direction from the original vi, but not > far enough for my needs. As a result, I'm pretty much stuck with Vim for > now.
the one extension that nvi has--and the only "feature" added was :wn; joy's original didn't have this. as for vim, from what i can glean from the docs, it does everything but pay its own taxes. ---the important thing is that we don't get into a spitball-throwing contest over which editor is better! gary > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Quoth Yasir Arafat on religious wars: "You're basically killing each > other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"