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WARNING: This information has not been updated since October, 1997!
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INDEX ENTRY FOR NVI:
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Name: nvi - ex, vi, and view text editors
Version: 1.79
Author(s): Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Ftp source: mongoose.bostic.com:/pub
Description:
Vi is a screen oriented text editor. Ex is a line-oriented text
editor. Ex and vi are different interfaces to the same program,
and it is possible to switch back and forth during an edit
session. View is the equivalent of using the -R (read-only)
option of vi.
Nex/nvi are intended as bug-for-bug compatible replacements
for the original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD)
ex and vi programs. It 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). Among its
additional features are the following:
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
Left-right scrolling
Message catalogs
Preliminary support for Perl5 and Tcl/Tk scripting languages
Ongoing development for nex/nvi includes full POSIX 1003.2 compliance,
Perl5 and Tcl/Tk scripting languages, and support for X11 interfaces.
Users with network access are urged to update their versions of nvi
periodically from the FTP archive site.
Complete reference materials are included.
Advertised architectures:
Uses the GNU autoconf software, and should build on any UNIX-like
system. Does not run on Windows, WNT or DOS systems.
Prerequisites: C compiler.
