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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:34:28 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
	Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>,
	Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>,
	Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>,
	Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: nvi maintainer?
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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:31:41AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >Nope, nvi has multiple undo levels (not sure how many), press '.'
> >after pressing 'u' to undo additional levels.
> 
> I'm forced to use VIM under Linux and personally think that VIM
> just doesn't cut it.  :split instead of :E, the funky undo behavior,
> the format of the status line, etc, etc.

Of course I feel the same about nvi's split screen handling -- I find it
unintuitive and can never remember that :E splits the screen.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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