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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:22:49 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ViM vs. Emacs
Message-ID:  <20000420232249.C7923@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <20000420190938.A73632@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 07:09:39PM %2B0200
References:  <20000420211628.A7696@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000420111228.11284B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <20000420190938.A73632@mithrandr.moria.org>

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> The Vim help claims: Nvi uses the "." command instead of CTRL-R.
> Unfortunately, this is not Vi compatible.  For example "dwdwu." in Vi
> deletes two words, in Nvi it does nothing.
> 
> Anyone want to test that on a 'real vi'?

Just tried with the stock vi on DEC unix, Irix, AIX, Solaris. In all
of them it deletes two words -- ie the second undoes the undo. 
Like vim -C, unlike nvi.

Rahul.


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