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This vi has its origin from BusyBox tiny vi. But there are some differences:

The program is resident. The text buffer and other buffers too. You can leave the program without saving, do some work on the command line and go back to vi and continue the edit task.
The text buffer is restricted to 40 KiB. Large files have to be split up.

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Mecrisp Forth uses DOS/Windows style line endings carriage return and line feed ("\r\n"). Unix (and vi) uses just line feed ("\n").

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Mecrisp Forth uses DOS/Windows style line endings carriage return and line feed ("\r\n"). Unix (and vi) uses just line feed ("\n"). https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/File_format dos2unix unix2dos

The command v evaluates a line.

My editor history:

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Learning the vi Editor/BusyBox vi https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/BusyBox_vi
Unix/Linux - The vi Editor Tutorial https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-vi-editor.htm
vi Editor "Cheat Sheet" http://www.atmos.albany.edu/daes/atmclasses/atm350/vi_cheat_sheet.pdf

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The Vi Lovers Home Page ... this makes a great starting point. https://thomer.com/vi/vi.html

-- Peter Schmid - 2020-08-29

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