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		ggm 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi ... Aside from neovim, no mention of nvi, Keith Bostic's fork which was BSD mainline, and the Japanese hacked on to add utf handling. The main divergence of note is tab expansion.

bch 10 months ago [–]

And one probably wouldn’t notice, but the buffer is backed by a “recno”[0] Berkeley DB instance[1].

[0] https://edoras.sdsu.edu/doc/BerkeleyDB/ref/am_conf/logrec.ht...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB

ggm 10 months ago | [–]

Isn't that how most editors manage infinite undo/redo? I wondered if there is some magic "prune the backend and its now linear" model.

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