Features

Features

New

• Display control characters in altnotation. (2.2.1)
• The expandtab option. (2.2.0)
• Reformatted manpages using mdoc(7). (2.1.3)
• POSIX NLS message catalog. (2.1.2)
• Full-featured file name completion. (2.1.1)
• Recover files with arbitrary file name. (2.1.0)
• Enhanced usability on BSDs. (2.0.3+)
• Configurable wide matchchars. (2.0.3+)
• Multibyte message. (2.0.3)
• Unicode escape sequence. (2.0.3)
• Wide-char-aware behaviors. (2.0.2)
• File encoding detection. (2.0.1)

Gained from nvi-1.81.6 (Sven Verdoolaege)

• Multibyte encoding supports (wchar_t + libiconv + libncursesw);
• fileencoding and inputencoding options;
• Undocumented :vsplit command, which vertically splits the screen.

Dropped from nvi-1.79 (Keith Bostic)

• Perl and Tcl interpreter supports;
• The whole Perl/Tcl/Tk scripting framework;
• A third-party gtags support.
• Old fcntl(2) locking.