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   Janis Papanagnou to Geoff Clare   
   Re: vi clones   
   07 Mar 24 15:08:09   
   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 07.03.2024 14:40, Geoff Clare wrote:   
   >   
   > I am using Linux and the "vi" on my system(s) is not vim, it is nvi.   
      
   As I understand it nvi is just a reimplementation of classical vi.   
   I assume your Linux also supports vim. Is there a reason why you   
   prefer to use nvi?   
      
   (I'm really curious since there's so many fundamental and useful   
   features supported in vim that I surely don't want to miss them.   
   Even at times when I used both, vi and vim, in parallel depending   
   on the actual platform I was working on it wouldn't have occurred   
   to me to stay with vi (for consistency, or so) on a platform where   
   vim was available.)   
      
   Janis   
      
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