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This is ex/vi descended from the original Bill Joy source as it was in
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4.4BSD Unix.
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Current BSD vi is actually nvi, a clean implementation derived from the
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original Elvis code.
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The original ex/vi code, even though it was written at Berkely, belonged
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to AT&T at the time of the 4.4BSDlite release. It has subsequently been
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released as open source at the time the Solaris source code was made
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available.
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The binary program derived from these sources is roughly half the size
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of nvi and several orders of magnitude smaller than vim (don't get me
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started on Emacs), while still being a tremendously useful and efficient
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editor. It is still capable of being your daily driver, and should feel
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immediately familiar to anyone who has spent time in nvi or vim.
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