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nvi-2.2.2-iconv

ex/vi text editor with wide character support

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Description

Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley. Nvi supports all the historic ex/vi features except for open mode and the lisp edit option (e.g., it has a fully implemented underlying ex mode). It has a number of additional features as well: * 8-bit clean data, lines and files limited by available memory * Multiple edit buffers * Colon command-line editing and path name completion * Tag stacks (including support for Cscope databases) * Extended Regular Expressions * Infinite undo * Horizontal scrolling * Message catalogs * Wide character support Available flavors: iconv - support conversion between different character encodings

Package information

Ports path
editors/nvi,iconv
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Anthony J. Bentley <anthony@anjbe.name>
Categories
editors
Available flavors
iconv
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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