Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:52:19 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ^M Message-ID: <200008102152.e7ALqJL04190@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <=q%2BSOcJiSwMYjJGOXPCUlzxRXZXI@4ax.com>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:38:32 +0100 John Murphy wrote:
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| Kisanak wrote:
| >
| > It seems that there's no visual feature while editing
| > using vi in freebsd, but in linux I can use visual or visual
| > block features. any idea?.
|
| The visual (block highlighting) is a feature of vim but not vi.
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On FreeBSD vi is nvi. On (many) linuxi vi is vim.
Though they are similar they each have different lineage.
You can compile vim from the ports collection if you wish.
chris
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