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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
You might also like ex(1), which is a line-editor like ed, but compatible with vi. |
Only if you switch it into "vi[usual]" mode, than it becomes compatible with vi
. The progression was ed -> sth else -> ex -> vi. I forget what line editor it was birthed off but it was based on ed iirc. The nvi implementation providing vi and ex for the BSDs is still lacking, unless the special vi keys for ex command history/filename completion work without having to be done from visual modes :.
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