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Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi 
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Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> wrote:

> ed seems works, but it's not either vi or ex.
> I'm not typically like ee... I sill wondering why we kept it in base
> system. It does not work when termcap is not correct, so I still need
> to use ed in such a case. Same thing happens to ex-vi.

History:
  ee was added long ago by emacs afficionado jkh@ for the
  sys installer eg /etc/inetd.conf  
  Small vi clones in source were available then too, on DOS 3.2 & Minix,
  One was called Stevie, I can't remember the others.

Replacing ee with a mini vi clone would be a return to Unix.
One would need to co-ordinate on <sysinstall@freebsd.org>

Cheers,
Julian
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