andy wrote: > Thus said Paul Fox on Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:50:24 -0400: > > > well, part of me wants to take offense at that, since it's not like > > vim is completely compatible with the "real" vi. nvi is much closer, > > in that regard, and should really be the rewrite that gets to use the > > /usr/bin/vi name. > > As a long-time nvi user, I'm always annoyed that vim doesn't work more > like vi. :-)
:-) I confess I haven't used nvi much, but I got the impression from Keith Bostic (completely unbiased, I'm sure :-) that he'd done a pretty good job on compatibility. The big exception that I remember was his implementation of infinite undo using '.', which broke a corner case of the redo command, but is so easy to use. I shamelessly stole that UI when I implemented infinite undo in vile, and still love it. On the other hand, I'm impressed that anyone can even remember what "real" vi was like these days, given how long its been since most people used it. though I suppose Solaris still ships it. For a couple more years. paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 36.3 degrees) -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
