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Showing revision 8Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley.
Author: Sven Verdoolaege and Keith Bostic
Homepage: http://www.bostic.com/vi/
Nvi FAQ: http://www.bostic.com/vi/faq.html
Family: ViFamily
Platform: Unix
License: Open source
Nvi software was originally derived from software contributed to the University of California, Berkeley by Steve Kirkendall, the author of the vi clone elvis. So, nvi has no code from BillJoy.
The source code to nvi is freely available, and nvi may be freely redistributed. Nvi is maintained by Sven Verdoolaege and Keith Bostic.
It adds a number of features missing from the original VI editor:
- 8-bit clean data, lines and files limited by available memory
- Multiple edit buffers
- Colon command-line editing and path name completion
- Tag stacks (including support for Cscope databases)
- Extended Regular Expressions
- Infinite undo
- Horizontal scrolling
- Message catalogs (Dutch, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish)
- Preliminary support for Perl and Tcl/Tk? scripting languages
Screenshot: (Development version)