On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:42:14 +0100, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > So untrue. Following up on Abigail's hate, there have been numerous > > times in the recent month that I typed 'ex -v' just to NOT get into > > some vi clone like gvim or vim. > > 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 :) % ex :ve Version 3.10 % ex :ve HP Version 78.2.1.21 $ 32-bit NLS $ % ex :ve HP Version 82.6.1.21 $ 32-bit NLS $ % ex :ve HP Version $ B.11.11_LR Nov 4 2004 06:40:43 $ % ex :ve HP Version $ B.11.23 Dec 2 2004 03:59:23 $ % ex :ve HP Version $ B.11.23 Jul 15 2003 02:09:47 $ > many ways less hateful than the former (or at least the version shipped by > Sun), e.g. because of infinite undo and not crashing when you make the > terminal window too large. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.2, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
