Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:40:20 +0000, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:28:05 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

I looked at emacs a couple of times, but we seem to be from different
planets.  My fingers speak vi well enough that it's not worth the
effort to change.  And vi is everywhere...

 
Well, sort of...
 
which vi /usr/bin/vi
 
ls -l /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
 
ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.gtk3
 
That's the Ubuntu box. The Fedora box doesn't show any links for
/usr/bin/
vi  but you get Vi Improved. The Raspberry Pi box follows the /etc/
alternatives/vi convention but it's linked to vim.basic.  RPi OS uses a
Gtk2 variation so there is no gVim on that one.
 
ex Entering Ex mode.  Type "visual" to go to Normal mode.
 
Guess where I wind up when I type vi. Yeah, pedantic, but I've used the
real vi and it's not an experience I'd like to repeat. For its day it
was okay but time moves on.

I just checked on FreeBSD, and there is a single 'vi' binary in /usr/bin.

But wait...it's built from sources which, drilling down, are for 'nvi',
from Keith Bostic!



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