[ILUG] editor wars: vim vs. nvi

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ken Guest (ilug at ken.guest.cx):

> To me this means nvi is a dead duck - and I'd be seriously surprised if there
> is anything it can do well that vim can not. 

ObQuibble:  Run in incredibly tiny amounts of memory, and reside in a
single, extremely tiny binary file.  In case anyone cares.

Not that vim's exactly memory-hungry by _modern_ standards, with a 2.5MB
Resident Set Size:

  [rick at linuxmafia]
  ~ $ top -b -n 1 | grep vim
  22233 rick       9   0  2576 2576 1588 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.21 vim 
  [rick at linuxmafia]

...or is a disk-hog by modern standards:

   [rick at linuxmafia]
   ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/vim
          libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4001e000)
          libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x4005d000)
          libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40063000)
          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40067000)
          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
  [rick at linuxmafia]
  ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/vim
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1074520 2005-01-18 23:59 /usr/bin/vim
  [rick at linuxmafia]

But, for the record, nvi's tinier still.  By a wide margin.