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James wrote: |
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> I appreciate your sharing this tidbit. I looked at: |
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> http://www.bostic.com/vi/ |
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> and saw what they said are advantages. What do you believe are the |
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> advantages of Nvi? |
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> just curious, |
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BTW .. I used the following which fixed the wordwrap to 78 in an 80 |
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column field. |
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TIN_VI_OPTIONS="set wm=2 co=80" |
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alias tin='EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi" EXINIT="${TIN_VI_OPTIONS}" /usr/bin/tin' |
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The advantage that I see is that NVI acts just like VI, which is what I have learned. I don't like trying to learn things differently if I don't need to. NVI is just like what I am used to on FreeBSD and others. |
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Also, it is BSD licensed, which I like. |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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