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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Recent history of vi (was: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose ?)
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In article <mnsa67Fq69cU1@mid.individual.net>,
rbowman  <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>On 15 Nov 2025 18:48:51 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>
>
>> I find it takes a lot of munging to get vim to *really* work like vi.
>> The one on FreeBSD which I think is technically "nex" is much closer out
>> of the box.
>
>:he compatible   has the disclaimer
>
>When this option is set, numerous other options are set to make Vim as
>Vi-compatible as possible. 
>
>The Arch vi is the real thing. I've no idea what version it is because 
>real vi doesn't do --version or much of anything useful. 

I believe as well as "set compatible" I had do do "syntax off" and there
was still some thing I never figured out where in some case it was
"helpfully" automatically inserting something.  Can't recall exactly
what triggered that.  There was also maybe something where it would
watch the file I was editing and try to be helpful if it had been
modified by anything else.  Don't care, shut up.
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