Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the
original BSD vi under
Linux? I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.
Have you tried
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net ?? The README states:
Welcome to the ex/vi port!
==========================
This implementation is derived from ex/vi 3.7 of 6/7/85 and the BSD
termcap library, originally from the 2.11BSD distribution. All of them
were changed to compile and run on newer POSIX compatible Unix systems.
Support for international character sets was added, including support
for multibyte locales (based on UTF-8 or East Asian encodings), and some
changes were made to get closer to the POSIX.2 guidelines for ex and
vi. Some issues that were clearly bugs and not features have also been
resolved; see the Changes file for details.
I haven't tried building it on Linux, but they claim wide platform
portability
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