Preferred Editor(s) (176)

156 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2015-03-28 04:15 ID:3xfCd8FJ

nvi, for editing in general.

>>39

>i've just discovered this: http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
>it's much more lightweight than vim, and has the one feature i really wanted that nvi doesn't have: support for utf-8.
>i've been using nvi, but the lack of utf-8 support meant that i had to use some other editor (usually mined 2000) whenever i wanted to edit a utf-8 encoded file.

nvi has had UTF-8 support since 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi

>Sven Verdoolaege added support for Unicode in 2000.[3]
>BSD projects continue to use nvi version 1.79 due to licensing differences between Berkeley Database 1.85 and the later versions by Sleepycat Software.

Fucking tools.

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