On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 11:15 +0000, Ivan Novick wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim??

You don't want normal vi, trust me on this. : )

We do have "nvi", (elvis, but I'm not sure there) and if you're
desperate for the original feeling of loss,  the busybox vi
implementation. However, the -classic- vi source is a headache and its
use of terminfo so horrendous that it causes brain-hemorrhaging if you
try to update it.


//Spider
  ex vi maintainer. Now suffering from hemorrhaging brainzombies.
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