Oh interesting, I'll check the post! And yeah, the nvi README actually credits Steve Kirkendall, Bostic started from elvis 1.8 to build a free vi for 4.4BSD. Funny that Slackware ended up replacing Elvis with what started as a fork of an early Elvis. Though they diverged a lot since — nvi added Berkeley DB backing for big files and went for bug-for-bug vi compatibility, while Elvis went the more featureful route.
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2026-05-28 18:25:14 UTC
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2026-05-28 18:25:14 UTCEvent JSON
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