[TUHS] End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference)

Bakul Shah via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Jul 19 08:39:47 AEST 2025


On Jul 18, 2025, at 2:32 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, when I tried nvi I don't think it had :E or I missed it.  I read
> release notes so it's strange I didn't catch it.  Or maybe it was added
> later because Keith was pretty focussed on 100% vi compat and I never
> saw :E in vi either.

vi didn't have this feature (or multiple undo/redo). Looking at
nvi logs, split windows were added on April 5, 1993 by Bostic.

[Doesn't seem that long ago :-(]



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