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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
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- Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems
- Genealogy of Vim (2017)
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OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems
The behavior of the traditional vi is much different than vim and other clones. Nvi was a actually a re-implementation of the traditional vi for 4BSD (to be clean of AT&T code) and thus was originally intended to be bug-for-bug compatible, but breaking away where the original vi behavior was nonsensical or terrible.
For vim, `set compatible` or `set cp` is close, but still not traditional vi by any means.
A multibyte variant of the tradition vi is maintained - https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/.
Nvi (now on version 1.8x) is also maintained - https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git
Nvi2 is yet another fork of Nvi, https://github.com/lichray/nvi2
Despite the very similar names, all of these editors have a variety of different features, and are structured very differently.
Nvi has a concept of a front-end and a back-end (which uses the BDB database). OpenVi uses the OpenBSD version of Berkeley DB which derives from 1.85. Nvi (1.8x) provides a minimal version of code also derived from that release intended from use with Nvi, and (IIRC) also provides support for using Db3/4/5. Similar situation for Nvi2.
Nvi 1.8 has been structured where a third library layer has been added, which doesn't exist in OpenBSD's vi or OpenVi. There is scripting support (Tcl, Perl, etc.) and GUI code in the other various forks ... all of these support various different options as well.
I should probably make a matrix of these, but you can get an idea by looking at the settable options implemented in each of the variants (as they historically include a comment to document from where the option originated):
OpenVi: https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/blob/22c2a7022e31d91e09e...
OpenBSD vi: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/vi/common...
Nvi2: https://github.com/lichray/nvi2/blob/5fcdc13656500a8c5b4c073...
Nvi1: https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git/blob/HEAD:/common/options.c#l52
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Hacker News top posts: Feb 19, 2022
OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems\ (22 comments)
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johnsonjh/OpenVi is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of OpenVi is C.
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