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Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. 
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:44:23 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > Our /usr/bin/vi is already a little rusty.  I would really like it if
> > somebody takes the stab and upgrades it.
> 
> Wouldn't this be a good time to move it into /usr/src/contrib,
> so that we might better track Keith's future work?
> 
> 					Jordan

I'll take this on..  I did a trial version of this for 1.76, it was quite 
simple.

Andrey asked about waiting for ncurses..  I am not sure that's a good idea 
yet, since they have just broken scrolling on the cons25 screens (no 
scroll regions), this is especially noticable with /usr/bin/talk.  And 
emacs went spastic last time I recompiled it..  It doesn't seem work in 
text mode at all at the moment, either on xterm or cons25, something is 
seriously unwell in the ncurses code at the moment.

Cheers,
-Peter