Subject: Re: NetBSD Release/vi Questions
To: Andy R" , "netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Flowers <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/24/2002 07:24:46
>I don't know of a list like you mention, but it
>would indeed be pretty handy. But it would
>be one more thing to maintain...

True but something like this should be able to be automated.

>Check this file:
>/usr/src/usr.bin/vi/README
>
>Here's an excerpt:
>
>This is the README for nex/nvi, a freely
>redistributable replacement for the ex/vi
>text editors originally distributed as part
>of the Fourth Berkeley Software
>Distribution (4BSD), by the University
>of California, Berkeley.
>
>I wasn't aware that this is what I've been
>using. I always thought that NetBSD was
>using vim. Doesn't bother me, I'm not
>proficient enough in vi to know the difference
>(even though it's my preferred editor).
>
> Andy

I am like you in that I, too, prefer vi to other text editors. Thanks to
you, and all others, for the replies.

Jeff Flowers
jeffrey@jeffreyf.net