BSD Ports

editors/traditional-vi 20050325p2 OpenBSD

traditional vi and ex

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Pascal Stumpf <[email protected]>
Categories
editors

Description

The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more than twenty years. In January 2002, Caldera was so kind to remove usage restrictions to the Ancient Unix Code by a BSD-style license and thus vi is now finally free.

This port of vi has generally preserved the original style, terminal control, and feature set. It adds support for international character sets, including multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, and some minor enhancements that were not present in BSD vi 3.7, but had been included in later vi versions for System V or in POSIX.2.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add traditional-vi

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/editors/traditional-vi && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right (to build, as it needs nothing to run); at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.