Last Updated on: 11th December 2023, 04:32 pm
Web site: sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/vi/
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: Linux, Unix-like, BSD
License: BSD
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia: Nvi
First release: unknown
nvi (new vi) – 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. The source code to nvi is freely available, and nvi may be freely redistributed.
Nvi supports all the historic ex/vi features except for open mode and the lisp edit option (e.g., it has a fully implemented underlying ex mode). It has a number of additional features as well:
– 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
This software was originally derived from software contributed to the University of California, Berkeley by Steve Kirkendall, the author of the vi clone elvis.