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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: Is there an X-enhanced `vi' ??
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.183613.10185@twinsun.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 18:36:13 GMT
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I wrote:

>Sun even _removed_ from `vi' the autoresizing code that
>they received from AT&T, because they couldn't fix its bugs!

I got this story from a Sun maintenance engineer, but I've since been
informed that it's a garbled version of reality.  SunOS versions up
through 4.0.x used Berkeley vi, which tries to handles window resize
events although it mishandles some cases.  Starting with version 4.1,
SunOS uses System V vi, which has never handled window resizes.
Because of this botch, many folks save 4.0.3 vi and reinstall it under
the 4.1 OS.

By the way, the Sun maintenance engineer was remarkably unapologetic
about the bug, and indicated that it wouldn't get fixed any time soon,
because he thought it would take too much of his time.  Clearly an
Emacs user (:-).