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> [...] Vim creator Bill Joy told [...] Yeah, no. Bill created the one true vi, and vim is Bram Moolenaar's much extended implementation of it, another impleme

• ggm 4y ago
  Came for this.. glad you saved me the effort. The horrible truth that Bostic's nvi was in fact a back-back-re-port out of elvis shocked me. I had believed it was the holy writ of Joy handed down to Bostic in a touching scene captured by Norman Rockwell, now hanging in the national gallery in Washington, but no. It was an attempt to re-birth back to what we wanted which was (apparently) i8n wide character support, and not much else. That said, I wish nvi had worked. I live in vim and emacs, have been in both vi and emacs since 84. I wish I could pick one and stick. Ed is still my favourite editor. (if anyone tries to tell me you can emulate vi in emacs.. I'm going to :wq out of here) Curse those AT&T Lawyers. Curse them. We could have had less LOC and less forkism, but for lawyers from phone-land. PS what I wanted was 4char tab expansion. If nvi had that, I'd stop in vim pretty much now.