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   John McCue to Spiros Bousbouras   
   Re: Good article on the history of vi an   
   01 Jun 24 23:11:15   
   
   From: jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com   
      
   Spiros Bousbouras  wrote:   
   > https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor   
      
   Thanks, very nice article.  I had forgot about em, I   
   never new it was called em, but I remember something   
   called "ed for mortals".  How it morphed into ex was a   
   good read.   
      
   One pedantic nit, in the clone section they forgot about nvi   
   (vi default for the BSDs).   
      
   IIRC it was created from an older version of Elvis and was   
   created due to the BSD/AT&T lawsuit.   
      
      
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