9 Jan
2020
9 Jan
'20
7:40 a.m.
On Jan 8, 2020, at 5:28 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:08:59PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
The first thing I do on a new machine is to install nvi. Very grateful to
Keith Bostic for implementing it. I do use multiple windows — only
horizontal splits but that is good enough for me as all my terminal
windows are 80 chars wide. Not a vim hater but never saw the need.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 4:22 PM Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
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) and he did
a pretty faithful bug for bug compatible job. I've always wondered why.
I like Keith but it seemed like a waste. There were other people taking
vi forward, elvis, xvi (I hacked the crap out of that one, made it mmap
the file and had a whole string library that treated \n like NULL) and
I think vim was coming along. So doing a compat vi felt like a step
backward for me.
For all the vim haters, come on. Vim is awesome, it gave me the one
thing that I wanted from emacs, multiple windows. I use that all the
time. It's got piles of stuff that I don't use, probably should, but
it is every bit as good of a vi as the original and then it added more.
I'm super grateful that vim came along. On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
Nvi is also interesting and 1/10th the size of vim. It's also the FreeBSD
default for vi. > That's a real big vi in RHL.
It's vim.
It's also VIM on the Mac.