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nvi is not Vi; it's a fork of Elvis: another Vi clone, like Vim.

Vim is older than Elvis, by years.

The FOSS BSD derivatives never got the actual Vi editor of Bill Joy ancestry.



Wikipedia has Elvis predating Vim by nearly 2 years (January 1990 vs. November 1991).

While nvi isn't vi, it was intended to be "bug-for-bug compatible" with Joy's original vi. It's not quite there, but it is much closer than any of the other vi clones.

The FOSS BSD derivatives can have a vi descended from Joy's: `2bsd-vi` in FreeBSD's ports collection, `traditional-vi` in OpenBSD's ports collection, `ex` in NetBSD's pkgsrc collection. Or anyone can nab it from http://ex-vi.sf.net/ ;)




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