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lichray / nvi2

A multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
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Clarify relationship to nvi #137

Open ant-222 opened 1 month ago

ant-222 commented 1 month ago

Please, descibe in README.md the relationship of this nvi2 to the original nvi (site, source) editor: is it a brach regularly sicned with the original, or developed on its own divering way?

lichray commented 1 month ago

Nvi2 is a multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD. It is hard to say that https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git is the original nvi, and nvi2 is not branched off it, although contains some of its code. A summary of the differences can be found at https://github.com/lichray/nvi2/wiki/Features