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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 20:32:28 -0400
From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: vim vs. nvi?
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On the subject of Re: vim vs. nvi?, Warner Losh stated:

> My initial reaction would be that we might not want to do that if any
> of the following are true:
> 	1) It has a bogus license (worse than nvi's)

I dont see *any* license information, except the startup: Vim is freely
distributable.

Vim works for 

    1. Generic
    2. Amiga
    3. MS-DOS
    4. Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 95)
    5. Archimedes
    6. Macintosh
    7. Unix
    8. OS/2 (with EMX 0.9b)
    9. Atari MiNT

    For BeBox see doc/os_bebox.txt.

> 	2) It is different enough by default from nvi and traditional
> 	   vi's to cause users grief.

The only thing I ran into when switching was vim uses u to undelete, and ^R to
redo, instead of the toggle as nvi operates.  (Once you get used to it, it
makes more sense the way vim does it..)

> or	3) It is significantly larger than nvi.

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND

henrich   9459  0.0  1.7   552 1080  p2  S+    8:30PM    0:00.03 nvi
henrich   9472  0.0  1.6   596  992  p4  S+    8:30PM    0:00.06 vim

---

I guess the only real way is to have some people in core who are vi users to
try it out and give it a spin and see what they think.  I myself am definatly
sold.. If not for the syntax coloring alone..

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich