nvi for serious hacking

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 17 07:49:48 PDT 2005


On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote:
> Hello, FreeBSD people.
> 
> First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it
> for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable
> with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't
> default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second,
> remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small
> Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember.
> But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default 
> `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default 
> and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism.
> 
> So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general
> editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate:
>

I'd say "s/nvi/vim" (see http://www.vim.org/) if you want to really do
everything with your Vi.

Marc


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