Vi

vi is a a screen-oriented text editor.

History

• 1978: visual mode of line editor ex by Bill Joy
• May 1979: included in 2BSD (ex 2.0)
• Jun 1979: ex/vi 2.7
• Aug 1980: ex/vi 3.5
• Oct 1981: ex/vi 3.7

OS/2 Implementations

Clones

• stevie
• levee
• elvis
• nvi
• vile
• vim
• Open Watcom Vi Editor
• xvi - Open Source - Discontinued.

OS/2 editors that offer some vi compatibility

• Preditor/2 - vi keyboard mappings, window layout and more - Commercial - Discontinued.

Publications

• Lamb; Robbins: Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition) O'Reilly 1998
• Haluk Polat: Vi Yazımlayıcısı - Mixed text/HTML file via Archive.org - 2005 - ISBN 975-98484-0-6

Tutorial introduction to the Vi text editor in Turkish.

Links

• http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/