From: geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid   
      
   Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It adds some features too.  Anthony has mentioned some of them.   
   I use split-screen editing of multiple files, unlimited undo, and   
   command-line editing a lot; the others not so much.   
      
   I'm not sure how command-line editing works in vim, but in nvi it's   
   wonderfully simple - after pressing : to get a command line, I just   
   press Esc and a small window opens at the bottom of the screen   
   containing the commands I've typed (with the cursor on the most   
   recent, at the bottom). I can use all the normal vi editing commands   
   in that window, except that Return executes the command on the current   
   line (and closes the window).   
      
   > I assume your Linux also supports vim. Is there a reason why you   
   > prefer to use nvi?   
      
   When I switched from Unixware 2 to Linux on my work PC around 1999/2000,   
   having been a vi user for 17 years, I evaluated the vi clones available   
   and was instantly at home in nvi, whereas vim felt quite alien (things   
   in my muscle memory didn't work the same, some of my macros didn't work,   
   etc.)  These days I occasionally have to edit files on a system that   
   doesn't have nvi and vim still feels "wrong" somehow, even with   
   "set compatible" and "syn off".   
      
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