Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:08:57PM +0000, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > Are you actually getting Joy's vi or is it Bostic's nvi? The latter is in > > Neither probably, as all the major vendors think they can do better. Both > AIX and HP-UX ship with a `real' vi, but don't try to read the version :)
Well, on my FreeBSD boxen: $ ex :ve Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley. But it is nvi, not original vi. Still, closer than most. OTOH, I also have vim installed, because I use all the extra bells and whistles, and it is worth it, for me. ;-) -- Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com> I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language
