Yeah I just found it genuinely amusing that the author felt a duty to digress into quitting vi for the sake of their audience but I’ve been downvoted and apparently people must have very strong opinions on this and I apologise for any offence caused.
[sobs in ed(1)/ex(1)]
Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4
by so-cal-schemer on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:32PM
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The true vi:
Vi is actually one mode of editing within the editor ex. When you are running vi you can escape to the line oriented editor of ex by giving the command Q. All of the : commands which were introduced above are available in ex. Likewise, most ex commands can be invoked from vi using :. Just give them without the : and follow them with a CR.
* https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=ee§ion=1
* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ee&manpath=FreeBSD...
But NetBSD and OpenBSD went their own ways on this, to the extent that NetBSD didn't even have a non-vi-like editor in base until just a month or so ago.