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OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems

6 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2022-02-19 · latest 2023-08-26

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  1. …(not much, mirrored) Learning the vi and vim editors (O'Reilly) johnsonjh@github work on OpenVi: https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi HN comments around OpenVi, nvi, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394952
    comment by turtleyacht · 2023-04-23 · in Genealogy of Vim (2017)
  2. …(as they historically include a comment to document from where the option originated): OpenVi: https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/blob/22c2a7022e31d91e09e... OpenBSD vi: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/vi/common...…
  3. …Apologies to everyone! /s I've added details to the README to hopefully explain why it exists: https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi#why The OpenVi ChangeLog at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/master/Ch... includes all the…
  4. …being imported back in 1997. The documentation has been updated to explain the rationale - see https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi#why In the 25 years since the "fork", OpenBSD vi has diverged significantly from Nvi1 (as Nvi2 has diverged…