Re: List of evil ex commands?

[Kendall Shaw]

On 10/31/2015 03:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > The command :ex is what I have been using in vi since 1982. In vi it
> > switches to ex (the line editor that came after ed) mode.
> What vi program are you using?
>
> I am using 'nvi' because it is the closest to the original BSD vi
> program that is available by free(dom) license.  There if I start nvi
> as 'ex' then I am in ex mode.  Typing in 'vi' (the ':' is already
> there in ex mode) then I enter visual mode.  But in nvi visual mode
> typing in ":ex" does not turn off visual mode.  Typing in ":" does
> however allow me to type in any ex command.  This is sufficient for
> me.  Supposedly in nvi the Q command exits visual mode and returns to
> ex mode but for whatever reason for me it says the Q command is
> unknown.  This has never bothered me enough to pursue it further.  I
> assume it is simply a bug in the nvi implementation.  It hasn't been
> getting much love lately.

Sorry, I am conflating some things. My train of thought was that it's 
called ex because it switched/switches to ex mode in vi that was on 
either Ultrix, Berkeley Unix or SunOS 4.x. But, :ex filename loaded a 
file and so that was what muscle memory has been using.

I've been using vim in some form on linux for a long time and nvi on 
openbsd just because it is what is/was installed by default.

Kendall