On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:58:45PM +0300, Alexander Polakov wrote: > I think we can safely replace nvi with traditional vi [1]. > vi supports UTF-8 and then we could use UTF-8 locale > systemwide. nvi is old and unmaintained, but supports > more configuration options, while vi is much simpler. > Anyway, if you want a really powerful text editor it > would be vim or emacs. > > Do you use feature nvi provides? Would you suffer if it's > replaced with a smaller vi? > > [1] http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
The above link says "multiple screens" are a fancy feature and not supported. Having a vi that can do split screen is essential AFAIC. Oh yeh, and BTW emacs sucks. -steve