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+.\" @(#)vi.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 1/12/94
+.\"
+.Dd "January 12, 1994"
+.Dt EX/VI 1
+.Os
+.Sh Name
+.Nm ex, vi, view
+.Nd text editors
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm vi
+.Op Fl eFlRv
+.Op Fl c Ar command
+.Op Fl r Ar file
+.Op Fl t Ar tag
+.Op Fl w Ar size
+.Op Fl x Ar aw
+.br
+.Nm view
+.Op Fl eFlRv
+.Op Fl c Ar command
+.Op Fl r Ar file
+.Op Fl t Ar tag
+.Op Fl w Ar size
+.Op Fl x Ar aw
+.br
+.Nm ex
+.Op Fl eFlRsv
+.Op Fl c Ar command
+.Op Fl r Ar file
+.Op Fl t Ar tag
+.Op Fl w Ar size
+.Op Fl x Ar aw
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Ex
+is a line-oriented text editor.
+.Nm Vi
+is a screen oriented text editor, based on
+.Nm ex .
+.Nm View
+is the same as using the
+.Fl R
+(read-only) option of
+.Nm vi .
+.Nm Ex
+and
+.Nm vi
+are really different interfaces to the same program,
+and it is possible to switch back and forth during the same edit session.
+.Pp
+This manual page is the one provided with the
+.Nm nex
+and
+.Nm nvi
+versions of the vi text editors.
+.Nm Nex
+and
+.Nm nvi
+are intended as bug-for-bug compatible replacements for the original
+Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD)
+.Nm ex
+and
+.Nm vi
+programs.
+.Pp
+The following options are available:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fl c
+Execute
+.Ar command
+immediately after starting the edit session.
+Useful for initial positioning in the file, but
+.Ar command
+is not limited to positioning commands.
+This is the POSIX 1003.2 interface for the historic
+.Dq +command
+syntax.
+.Nm Nex/nvi
+supports both the old and new syntax.
+.It Fl e
+Start editing in ex mode, as if the command name was
+.Nm ex .
+.It Fl F
+Don't copy the entire file when first starting to edit.
+(The default is to make a copy in case someone else tries to edit
+the file too.)
+.It Fl l
+List the files that may be recovered using the
+.Fl r
+option of
+.Nm vi .
+This is the new interface for the historic
+.Fl r
+without a file argument syntax.
+.Nm Nex/nvi
+supports both the old and new syntax.
+.It Fl R
+Start editing in read-only mode, as if the command name was
+.Nm view .
+.It Fl r
+Recover the specified file.
+.It Fl s
+Enter batch mode; applicable only to
+.Nm ex
+edit sessions.
+Batch mode is useful when running
+.Nm ex
+scripts.
+Prompts, informative messages and other user oriented things are
+turned off.
+This is the POSIX 1003.2 interface for the historic
+.Fl \-
+syntax.
+.Nm Nex/nvi
+supports both the old and new syntax.
+.It Fl t
+Start editing at the specified tag.
+(See
+.Xr ctags 1 ).
+.It Fl w
+Set the initial window size to the specified number of lines.
+.It Fl v
+Start editing in vi mode, as if the command name was
+.Nm vi
+or
+.Nm view .
+.It Fl x
+Reserved for X11 interfaces.
+Not currently implemented.
+.Sh ADDITIONAL FEATURES
+This manual page is the one distributed with the
+.Nm nvi
+and
+.Nm nex
+reimplementations of
+.Nm ex/vi .
+There are a few additional features in
+.Nm nex/nvi .
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It "8-bit clean data, large lines, files"
+.Nm Nvi/nex
+will edit any format file.
+Line lengths are limited by available memory,
+and file sizes are limited by available disk space.
+The command
+.Dq ^Vx[0-9A-Fa-f]* ,
+in input mode, will insert any
+legal character value into the text.
+.It "Split screens"
+The command
+.Dq :sp[lit] [file ...]
+splits the screen in vi mode.
+The key
+.Dq ^W
+switches between the foreground screens,
+and the
+.Dq :resize count
+command can be used to grow or shrink any
+particular screen.
+.It "Background and foreground screens"
+The command
+.Dq :bg
+backgrounds the current screen,
+and the command
+.Dq :fg [file]
+foregrounds the backgrounded screeen
+that is editing the specified file, or, by default, the first background
+screen on the queue.
+The command
+.Dq :di[splay] s[creens]
+lists the background screens.
+.It "Shell screens"
+The command
+.Dq :sc[ript] [file ...]
+runs a shell in the screen.
+Editing is unchanged, with the exception that a <carriage-return>
+enters the current line (stripped of any prompt) as input to the
+shell.
+.It "Tag stacks"
+Tags are now maintained in a stack.
+The command
+.Dq ^T
+returns to the previous tag location.
+The command
+.Dq :tagpop [number \| file]
+returns to the most recent tag
+location by default, or, optionally to a specific tag number in the
+tag stack, or the most recent tag from the specified file.
+Use the command
+.Dq :di[splay] t[ags]
+to view the tags stack.
+The command
+.Dq :tagtop
+returns to the top of the tag stack.
+.It "New displays"
+The command
+.Dq :di[splay] b[uffers] \| s[creens] \| t[ags]
+can be
+used to display, respectively, the current cut buffers,
+the backgrounded screens, and the tags stack.
+.It "Infinite undo"
+The changes made during an edit session may be rolled backward and
+forward.
+A '.' command immediately after a 'u' command continues either forward
+or backward depending on whether the 'u' command was an undo or a redo.
+.It "Usage information"
+The command
+.Dq :exu[sage [cmd]
+and
+.Dq viu[sage] [key]
+provide usage
+information for all of the ex and vi commands by default, or, optionally,
+for a specific command or key.
+.It "Extended regular expressions"
+The
+.Dq :set extended
+command treats search and other command regular
+expressions as extended (egrep(1) style) regular expressions.
+.It "Word search"
+The command
+.Dq ^A
+searches for the word referenced by the cursor.
+.It "Number increment"
+The command
+.Dq #
+increments the number referenced by the cursor.
+.It "Previous file"
+The command
+.Dq :prev[ious][!]
+edits the previous file from the
+argument list.
+.It "Left-Right scrolling"
+The command
+.Dq :set leftright
+makes
+.Nm nvi
+do left-right screen scrolling, instead of the traditional
+.Nm vi
+line wrapping.
+.Sh RECOVERY
+There is no recovery program for nvi, nor does it run setuid.
+Users may recover any file which they may read, and the superuser
+may recover any edit session.
+.Pp
+Edit sessions are backed by files in
+.Pa /var/tmp/vi.recover ,
+and are named
+.Dq vi.XXXX ,
+where
+.Dq XXXX
+is a number related to the process id.
+When a file is first modified, a second file, which contains an
+email message for the user, is created, and is named
+.Dq recover.XXXX ,
+where, again,
+.Dq XXXX
+is associated with the process id.
+Both files are removed at the end of a normal edit session,
+but will remain if the edit session is abnormally terminated
+or the user enters the ex/vi
+.Dq preserve
+command.
+The use of the
+.Pa /var/tmp
+directory may be changed setting the option
+.Dq recdir
+in the user's or system startup information.
+.Pp
+The recovery directory should have the
+.Dq sticky-bit
+set so that only the owners of files may remove them.
+If this is not possible on the system, then a pseudo-user should
+own the recovery directory.
+The recovery directory must be both read and write-able by
+any user.
+.Pp
+The recovery file has all of the necessary information in it to enable the
+user to recover the edit session.
+In addition, it has all of the necessary email headers for sendmail.
+When the system is rebooted, all of the files in
+.Pa /var/tmp/vi.recover
+named
+.Dq recover.XXXX
+should be sent by email,
+using the
+.Fl t
+flag of sendmail (or a similar mechanism in other mailers).
+A simple way to do this is to insert the following script into your
+rc.local file:
+.sp
+.ne 7v
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+# Recover nvi editor files.
+virecovery=/var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.*
+if [ $virecovery != /var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.\e* ]; then
+ echo 'Recovering vi editor sessions'
+ for i in $virecovery; do
+ sendmail -t < $i
+ done
+.Ed
+.Pp
+If
+.Nm nex/nvi
+receives a hangup (SIGHUP) signal, it will email the recovery
+information to the user itself.
+.Pp
+If you don't have the sendmail program on your system, the source file
+.Pa nvi/recover.c
+will have to be modified to use your mail delivery programs.
+.Sh BUGS
+This man page is woefully incomplete.
+.Pp
+Many and varied.
+See the file
+.Pa nvi/docs/BUGS
+for a list of the known bugs in this version.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width XXXX/var/tmp/vi.recover -compact
+.It Pa /tmp
+Storage for temporary files.
+.It Pa /var/tmp/vi.recover
+Storage for recovery files.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ctags 1 ,
+.Xr more 1 ,
+.Xr curses 3 ,
+.Xr dbopen 3
+.sp
+The
+.Dq Vi Quick Reference
+card.
+.sp
+.Dq An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi ,
+found in the
+.Dq UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents .
+.sp
+.Dq Edit: A tutorial ,
+found in the
+.Dq UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents .
+.sp
+.Dq Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7) ,
+found in the
+.Dq UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents .
+.sp
+The files
+.Dq autowrite ,
+.Dq input ,
+and
+.Dq quoting ,
+found in the
+.Pa nvi/docs
+directory of the
+.Nm nex/nvi
+source code.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm nex/nvi
+replacements for
+.Nm ex/vi
+first appeared in 4.4BSD.
+.Sh STANDARDS
+.Nm Nex/nvi
+is fairly close to IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX''), but it's
+not there yet.