On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:04:36 +0100, ropers wrote: > While this feature/bug is counter-intuitive (IMHO), I presume nvi acts > this way so as to be bug-for-bug compatible with original vi. (That's > my guess. I haven't actually confirmed this.)
You can install the traditional-vi port and compare the behavior with nvi. I did a quick test and the behavior seems to be consistent. - todd