Interestingly, #
FreeBSD comes with #
nvi2 in base, while #
OpenBSD and #
NetBSD seem to be running #
nvi 1:
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
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Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
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Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
NetBSD 10.1
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Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #
Debian, oddly, does not.
rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2 Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$
#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2 (list) with wide and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv (list) with wide and files limited by
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13 Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11 Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0 Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$
~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $
