[TUHS] screen editors

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Thu Jan 9 12:14:03 AEST 2020


On Wednesday,  8 January 2020 at 17:28:30 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:08:59PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> Nvi is also interesting and 1/10th the size of vim. It's also the FreeBSD
>> default for vi.
>
> I was gonna stay out of this thread (it has the feel of old folks somehow)
> but 2 comments:
>
> Keith did nvi (I can't remember why?  licensing or something)

My vague recollection is that Rob Kolstad paid him to do it for
BSD/386.  As you say, licensing, and that BSD/386 *really* needed a vi
editor.

Does anybody know where Rob is?

Greg
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