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This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @ JdeBP . For # senryu and # SlowLife tasks, see @ JdeBP . For the command-line and system tools (including # nosh and # djbwares ), specifically, see @ JdeBP .
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Feb 11, 2026
@davefischer@hachyderm.io
I'm guessing that that was Ritter's Heirloom vi.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116052015020764901
There are discussions in an Arch Linux forum of its package being removed because it hadn't changed in two decades and the (GNU flavoured) C language had.
It's in the #FreeBSD ports collection; and several people have independently come up with the Makefile patch that gets it to build on Debian Linux.
https://freshports.org/editors/2bsd-vi/
#vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #gcc #ArchLinux
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On #Illumos, Jov vi is in /usr/src/cmd/vi:
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/cmd/vi
On #OpenBSD, Bostic #nvi is in /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/vi; #NetBSD having it in /usr/src/external/bsd/nvi; and #FreeBSD in /usr/src/contrib/nvi:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/contrib/nvi
FreeBSD has an nvi2 in ports:
https://freshports.org/editors/nvi2/
OpenBSD has elvis in ports:
https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/editors/elvis/pkg/DESCR
Ritter's Heirloom vi is on SourceForge:
https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net
STEVIE was posted to comp.sources.unix in 1988:
https://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/volume15/stevie/
Unfortunately, Sven Guckes's vi Clones WWW site was never completed with some of this, notably lacking Heirloom vi, for example.
https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html
But it does mention oft-overlooked commercial clones such as Watcom's vi, a from-scratch implementation started in 1983 that is also now source-available:
https://github.com/open-watcom/owp4v1copy/tree/master/bld/vi
#vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #STEVIE #elvis #VIM #NeoVIM #Watcom #OpenWatcom
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