[D66] vi

[Henk van Lingen]

henk at nuc:~$ ex -version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Mar 18 2020 18:29:15)
Garbage after option argument: "-version"
More info with: "vim -h"
henk at nuc:~$ 


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:54:34PM +0200, Antid Oto wrote:
> rene at NUC:~$ describe vi
> en:
> keyboard-oriented text editor
> **vi** (pronounced as distinct letters,  ) is a screen-oriented text editor
> originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the
> behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language
> supported within these programs, is described by (and thus standardized by)
> the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.
> 
> The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976, as the visual mode
> for a line editor called ex that Joy had written with Chuck Haley. Bill
> Joy's ex 1.1 was released as part of the first Berkeley Software
> Distribution (BSD) Unix release in March 1978. It was not until version 2.0
> of ex, released as part of Second BSD in May 1979 that the editor was
> installed under the name "vi" (which took users straight into ex's visual
> mode), and the name by which it is known today. Some current implementations
> of vi can trace their source code ancestry to Bill Joy; others are
> completely new, largely compatible reimplementations.
> 
> The name "vi" is derived from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the
> ex command `visual`, which switches the ex line editor to visual mode. The
> name is pronounced  (the English letters _v_ and _i_ ).
> 
> In addition to various non–free software variants of vi distributed with
> proprietary implementations of Unix, vi was opensourced with OpenSolaris,
> and several free and open source software vi clones exist. A 2009 survey of
> _Linux Journal_ readers found that vi was the most widely used text editor
> among respondents, beating gedit, the second most widely used editor, by
> nearly a factor of two (36% to 19%).
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
> 
> 
> On 21-04-2020 16:49, Antid Oto wrote:
> >rene at NUC:~$ vi rus
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|  Henk van Lingen                       
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