[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the original BSD vi under
Linux?  I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.

I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but could only get so
far.

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins

[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[Gunnar Ritter]

Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the original BSD vi under
> Linux?  I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.

<http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/>

> I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but could only get so
> far.

I also have a Linux port of OpenSolaris vi, but it is
unreleased. The main issue is that it requires their
version of curses.

	Gunnar

[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the original BSD vi under
> Linux?  I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.

Have you tried http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net ??  The README states:

  Welcome to the ex/vi port!
  ==========================

  This implementation is derived from ex/vi 3.7 of 6/7/85 and the BSD
  termcap library, originally from the 2.11BSD distribution. All of them
  were changed to compile and run on newer POSIX compatible Unix systems.
  Support for international character sets was added, including support
  for multibyte locales (based on UTF-8 or East Asian encodings), and some
  changes were made to get closer to the POSIX.2 guidelines for ex and
  vi. Some issues that were clearly bugs and not features have also been
  resolved; see the Changes file for details.

I haven't tried building it on Linux, but they claim wide platform 
portability


--lyndon

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[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[John Cowan]

Lyndon Nerenberg scripsit:

> I haven't tried building it on Linux, but they claim wide platform 
> portability

I can't say how it works as a 'vi', because I am an 'ex' troglodyte.
As an 'ex', it works fine under Linux (much better than 'vim' does), and
in fact I am editing this very reply with it.  The definition of INSTALL
in the Makefile (there is no configure script) is '/usr/ucb/install',
which needs to be changed to just 'install'.

It also builds and runs excellently under Cygwin with the above
change plus removing the 'size' command from the Makefile, which is
not necessary.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves.
        --Murray Gell-Mann

[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[Lyrical Nanoha]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Aharon Robbins wrote:

> Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the original BSD vi under
> Linux?  I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.
>
> I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but could only get so
> far.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold Robbins

http://ex-vi.sf.net

-uso.

[TUHS] original vi under Linux?

[Aharon Robbins]

> http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net

Thanks to both of the people who just replied with this answer!

I didn't know about this but will look at it ASAP.

Arnold