From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 19 08:08:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA01022 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 08:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01015; Sun, 19 May 1996 08:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19879; Sun, 19 May 1996 10:08:05 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 10:08:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Greg Lehey cc: Jerry Dunham , Jordan Hubbard , doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & vi In-Reply-To: <199605190702.JAA12331@allegro.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 May 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> Howcum vi has never been ported to FreeBSD, at least that FreeBSD.org > >>> will own up to? The closest I saw was vile. !!! > >> Who told you that? > > > > The FreeBSD web page. There's a page there just for editors; emacs is > > there, and jove and vile, but I didn't see vi. > > Aha. The web page shows ports of software not included in the base > system. vi is an integral part, and thus figures. I'm copying Jordan > and John on this so that they can clarify things. Yes, the "Applications" pages are simply for "add-on" software that isn't in the base FreeBSD distribution. Maybe someone ought to go through the whatis database and make up a web page advertising the "standard equipment". There is a LOT of it. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================