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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news1.epix.net!enews.uucom.com!news.clark.net!clark.net!not-for-mail From: T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.editors Subject: Re: What is vi? (Re: Betting on Unix) Date: 16 Mar 1997 12:34:27 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5ggpcj$5sd@clarknet.clark.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> <330EF0FF.55CE@to.me.please> <5esial$eit@innocence.interface-business.de> <5esunl$9bv@web.nmti.com> <3313B49A.2B42@ibm.net> <331b5865.0@131.162.2.91> <857531709.6661.1@msn-9-16.binc.net> <331D71A4.556B@absyss.fr> <5fto1u$jde$2@peachy.apana.org.au> <pdxvi6z9x8j.fsf_-_@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> <0n_vIm200YUf0Q5OA0@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 100-explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970202] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:164767 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2816 comp.editors:22325 In comp.editors Gerry S Hayes <sumner@CMU.EDU> wrote: : None of the vi clones conform to POSIX yet, AFAIK; vim lacks ex mode : (strange, since vi is just the Visual Interface to ex), nvi lacks : modelines. Elvis is best for vi compatibility as far as I've seen. I have a copy of a Posix document from 1993 for vi that doesn't mention modelines (which version are you referring to?). when I'm testing vi-compatibility with vile -- which I do when there's no other design considerations overriding -- I find that elvis/vim/vile all are about equally non-vi-compatible, while nvi _is_ (since I cross-test with other implementations). -- Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey