Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:49:20 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Oleg Petrov <dsacode@yandex.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvi for serious hacking Message-ID: <20051017144920.GA597@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <4352D860.000002.03681@tide.yandex.ru> References: <4352D860.000002.03681@tide.yandex.ru>
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote: > Hello, FreeBSD people. > > First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it > for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable > with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't > default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second, > remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small > Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember. > But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default > `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default > and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism. > > So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general > editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate: > I'd say "s/nvi/vim" (see http://www.vim.org/) if you want to really do everything with your Vi. Marc
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