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nvi - Implementation of the ex/vi text editor

Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by UC-Berkeley. Nvi supports all the historic ex/vi features except for open mode and the lisp edit option (e.g., it has a fully implemented underlying ex mode). It has a number of additional features as well:

8-bit clean data, lines and files limited by available memory
Multiple edit buffers
Colon command-line editing and path name completion
Tag stacks (including support for Cscope databases)
Extended Regular Expressions
Infinite undo
Horizontal scrolling
Message catalogs (Dutch, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish)
Preliminary support for Perl and Tcl/Tk scripting languages

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.bostic.com/vi/
Source tarball	http://www.kotnet.org/~skimo/nvi/devel/nvi-1.81.5.tar.gz
Source information	http://www.kotnet.org/~skimo/nvi/

Version 1.81.5 (stable) released on 2001-08-21

Licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.

This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List	<skimo@kotnet.org>
Developer List	<skimo@kotnet.org>
Bug List	<skino@kotnet.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> Keith Bostic%touched: 2003-03-13 <bostic@bostic.com>
Developers	Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> Keith Bostic <bostic@bostic.com>
Contributors	See the README file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Use requirements	DB3.1
Related programs	Emacs, Vim

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-08-03
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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