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This code implements the most important feature of the editor in question: https://github.com/Cube9999/vi/blob/master/vax/ex_cmds.c#L45...
This is what it looked like about 7-8 years earlier: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1/e...
Indeed, the History of Documented Unix Facilities [https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-man] says a vi(1) man page first appeared in 2BSD, and vi is implemented (as part of ex, with a 1979 copyright) in 2BSD src/ex, with the main routines at src/ex/ex_vmain.c: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-2-S...