On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 17:28:30 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:08:59PM -0700, Warner Losh
wrote:
Nvi is also interesting and 1/10th the size of
vim. It's also the FreeBSD
default for vi.
I was gonna stay out of this thread (it has the feel of old folks somehow)
but 2 comments:
Keith did nvi (I can't remember why? licensing or something)
My vague recollection is that Rob Kolstad paid him to do it for
BSD/386. As you say, licensing, and that BSD/386 *really* needed a vi
editor.
Does anybody know where Rob is?
Greg
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