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

Jeff Johnson trnsz at pobox.com
Sun Jul 20 04:21:04 AEST 2025


You should try OpenVi - which is easy to build and includes the OpenBSD’s db and regex dependencies in the tree - https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi

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Jeffrey H. Johnson
trnsz at pobox.com

> For years and years i want to go to Thomas Dickey's vile, but just
> cannot get there.
>
> "Problem with" nvi and nvi2 is they do not compile out of the box
> of their repository, and nvi2 does not go at all here because it
> does not include the Berkeley DBv1, and Linux does not have it,
> nvi just includes the few kilobyte.
>
> (Btw OpenBSD has the usr.bin/mg, an emacs-style thing, but pretty
> small.  I do not know wether someone somewhere has the small make
> compatibility shim to make it a portable thing.)
>
> --steffen


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