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> The creator of MINIX, Andrew Tanenbaum, asked the community to choose between Stevie and Elvis to be adopted as the main text editor for their OS. Elvis was c

> The creator of MINIX, Andrew Tanenbaum, asked the community to choose between Stevie and Elvis to be adopted as the main text editor for their OS. Elvis was chosen and it's the default text editor on MINIX until today. Point of order: Minix switched to BSD nvi in 2013 https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix/commit/3e1db26a5a6252fcff0898d4cb0c3fa16ccf561d https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix... Not that it matters -- Minix itself hasn't had a commit since 2018 -- but the last five years of its life were spent without Elvis

litoE 1y ago
Up to now I have been using elvis exclusively, rather than vim, both on Windows and Linux - I never saw the need to switch, since elvis does everything I need. I just retired it last month, when I upgraded some systems to the latest release of Debian Bookworm and the elvis graphic interface started crashing the whole X windows manager. I have the source code, but I don't have the patience to recompile and debug it.