nvi (deprecated)

Disable date: 2027-05-21

Install command: 
brew install nvi

44BSD re-implementation of vi

https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/nvi.json

Formula code: nvi.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
monterey ✅
big sur ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
monterey ✅
big sur ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.81.6

Revision: 6

Depends on:

berkeley-db@5 5.3.28 High performance key/value database

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.73 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.19 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
libtool 2.6.2 Generic library support script
xz 5.8.4 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio

Uses from macOS: ncurses

Binaries: nex

Homebrew ships patches for: CVE-2015-2305.

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