From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 11:34:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FCA37B407 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g4EIYZg53006; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:34:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Martin Karlsson Cc: Burhan Nazir , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... Message-ID: <20020514113434.A52937@tao.thought.org> References: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> <20020514094901.GA82884@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020514111744.GA3048@foo31-146.visit.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020514111744.GA3048@foo31-146.visit.se>; from martin.karlsson@visit.se on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:17:44PM +0200 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:17:44PM +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote: > * Burhan Nazir [2002-05-14 10.49 +0100]: > > In many Linux distributions, vi is aliased to VIM in the default shell > > profile. Therefore, you could be using and getting comfortable with VIM > > (which is not VI). FreeBSD comes with the real and original VI. > > I think Vi in FreeBSD actually is nvi (not that it matters, though). > :) Yes, this is correct. vi was the first whole-screen visual editor that Bill Joy hacked out in the late 70's; our (FBSD) vi/ex is a slight improvement written by Keith Bostic. One of nvi's improvements is, for example, that :wn will write a file and take you to the next in a series that you are editing at one time. Every Sun I've worked on uses the old vi that Bill gave up on; it is slightly less useful than nvi. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message