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  • Re: Good article on the history of vi and clones

    From Julieta Shem@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Sat Jun 1 19:12:08 2024
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:

    https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

    Nice! Thanks for sharing that.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Sat Jun 1 23:11:15 2024
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
    https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

    Thanks, very nice article. I had forgot about em, I
    never new it was called em, but I remember something
    called "ed for mortals". How it morphed into ex was a
    good read.

    One pedantic nit, in the clone section they forgot about nvi
    (vi default for the BSDs).

    IIRC it was created from an older version of Elvis and was
    created due to the BSD/AT&T lawsuit.


    --
    csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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