The Original VI ?

[olli hauer]

On 2013-09-04 23:56, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> I've just been fiddling with some unicode/utf-8 stuff, and managed
> to figure out how to get both xterm and more (aka less) to properly
> deal with utf-8 characters.  It then occured to me that it might be
> nice if I could cut and paste utf-8 stuff into vi, which is the text
> editor that I happen to use.
> 
> After a quick bit of googling I found this:
> 
>   http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.editors/2011-03/msg00010.html
> 
> Apparently, it is correct that FreeBSD distributes nvi as vi (and as
> far as I can tell, that _does not_ currently support utf-8), but I
> sort-of thought that maybe this "original" vi, now with unicode support,
> had at least made it into the ports tree, but I can't seem to find it there.
> 
> Am I wrong?  Is it in there?  If so, where please?

try editors/nvi-devel