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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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