On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:08:59PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 4:22 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >>>> That's a real big vi in RHL. >>> >>> It's vim. >> >> It's also VIM on the Mac. >> > > Nvi is also interesting and 1/10th the size of vim. It's also the

I was gonna stay out of this thread (it has the feel of old folks

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.