replace nvi with traditional vi?
Michael Neumann
michaelneuma at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 14 07:53:49 PST 2009
2009/12/14 Steve Shorter <steve at netfirms.com>
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:58:45PM +0300, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> I think we can safely replace nvi with traditional vi [1].
> vi supports UTF-8 and then we could use UTF-8 locale
> systemwide. nvi is old and unmaintained, but supports
> more configuration options, while vi is much simpler.
> Anyway, if you want a really powerful text editor it
> would be vim or emacs.
>
> Do you use feature nvi provides? Would you suffer if it's
> replaced with a smaller vi?
>
> [1] http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
The above link says "multiple screens" are a fancy feature and
not supported. Having a vi that can do split screen is essential AFAIC.But our vi can't do ":sp" or am I missing something? That's why I am using vim :)Regards,
Michael
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