From: bencollver@tilde.pink   
      
   On 2022-05-03, colonel_hack@yahoo.com  wrote:   
   > slackware 15.0 has changed to nvi and now it behaves like FreeBSD's vi: In   
   > insert mode when you move to the first of a line it switches to command   
   > mode. I'd rather it didn't but it hasn't worried me enough to look into   
   > how to change it. But I have wondered why.   
   >   
   >    --Ron   
      
   I don't know why, but i suspect it has something to do with gaining   
   support for UTF-8 [1].  It was an install-time option for me whether i   
   wanted Slackware 15.0 to use elvis, nvi, or vim.  When i run   
   "ls -l /usr/bin/vi" it shows up as a symbolic link.  If you want to   
   change back to elvis, you could do the following as root.   
      
   # cd /usr/bin   
   # ln -fs elvis vi   
      
   [1]   
   https://github.com/mbert/elvis/issues/13   
      
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