replace nvi with traditional vi?
Steve Shorter
steve at netfirms.com
Mon Dec 14 07:34:13 PST 2009
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.
Oh yeh, and BTW emacs sucks.
-steve
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