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  1. Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as
  2. part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University
  3. of California, Berkeley.
  4. Nvi supports all the historic ex/vi features except for open mode and the
  5. lisp edit option (e.g., it has a fully implemented underlying ex mode). It
  6. has a number of additional features as well:
  7. * 8-bit clean data, lines and files limited by available memory
  8. * Multiple edit buffers
  9. * Colon command-line editing and path name completion
  10. * Tag stacks (including support for Cscope databases)
  11. * Extended Regular Expressions
  12. * Infinite undo
  13. * Horizontal scrolling
  14. * Message catalogs
  15. * Wide character support
  16. Available flavors:
  17. iconv - support conversion between different character encodings