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As far as I know, the original vi sees little use because it was caught up in the legal wrangling and fragmentation associated with the Unix Wars. However, some
by 0xcde4c3db 11y ago
As far as I know, the original vi sees little use because it was caught up in the legal wrangling and fragmentation associated with the Unix Wars. However, some systems still have a clone that sticks closer to the original feature set. In particular, nvi was written by Keith Bostic specifically so that BSD would have an unencumbered vi implementation.