Features

Features

Gained from nvi-1.81.6 (Sven Verdoolaege)

• Multibyte encoding supports (wchar_t + libiconv + libncursesw);
• fileencoding and inputencoding options;
• Undocumented :vsplit command, which vertically splits the screen.

Dropped from nvi-1.79 (Keith Bostic)

• Perl and Tcl interpreter supports;
• The whole Perl/Tcl/Tk scripting framework;
• A third-party gtags support.

New

• File encoding detection (based on file(1));
• UTF-16 support.