18 Jul
2025
18 Jul
'25
11:45 p.m.
On Jul 18, 2025, at 22:58, Bakul Shah via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Agreed! nvi `u` undo/redo with the `.` repeat cmd is what nvi got very right and vim got
wrong by comparison IMO. That feature alone had me preferring nvi forever (they both
supported split windows :)
I eventually gave up and just started using vim though b/c it was installed by default on
Linux systems, which is what the vast majority of customers/companies want to use now.
Thanks,
Chris.
P.S. Actually I had a soft spot in my heart for vim even when I preferred nvi b/c there
was a native Amiga OS version, but that’s a topic for some other mailing list. :)
And I don't understand the dislike of vim.
It is more that some of us *prefer* nvi to vim. [I might've used
vim when it was first posted on Usenet but Braam refused to make
at least provide an option to make multiple undo/redo behavior
compatible to nvi. So it goes!]