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Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
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Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>,
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	Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Jul 2001 16:34:52 +0200."
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In message <xzplmlzsd4j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav 
writes:
> Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> writes:
> > Setting undolevels=0 causes vim to have the same undo/redo behaviour as 
> > vendor vi and nvi.
> 
> Nope, nvi has multiple undo levels (not sure how many), press '.'
> after pressing 'u' to undo additional levels.

Cool.  It supports multiple undo levels without breaking compatibility 
with vendor vi.  This is like having my cake and eating it too.

Vim and vendor vi repeat the last non-undo command.  In this regard vim 
is compatible with vendor vi while nvi by default is not, which IMO is 
a bug in the original (and vendor) vi, but then who am I to say?  After 
a little research, nvi can be fully vendor vi and vim compatible (IMO 
buggy) in this regard using the "set edcompatible" command.

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Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
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