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From: Joerg Mertens <joerg-mertens@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: tin: article stubs one line short
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:03:38 +0200
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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
> Joerg Mertens <joerg-mertens@t-online.de> wrote:
>>Joerg Mertens <joerg-mertens@t-online.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can also tell nvi to jump to the last line with
>>> 
>>> # vi +'$' file
>>> 
>>> or 
>>> 
>>> # vi -c'$' file
>>> 
>>> So you can just ignore the %N.
>>
>>... wich also won't work with followups, by the way.
>> Sorry for the noise.
> 
> I love this noise and am glad to meet a vi user online.  Have you
> noticed that its -c option is documented as if accepting the command
> after a space: -c <cmd> ? This form does not work for me, and I
> have to use it without the inervening space: -c<cmd> . Is it an
> error in the man page, or I am missing someting?

It works here with both the system nvi (OpenBSD) and the nvi from ports.
The former is version 1.79 and the ports nvi is 2.2.1.

For example:

# vi -c '/^$/' file

starts on the first blank line of the file,

# vi -c '/^$/++' file

starts two lines after the first blank line of the file and so on.

Seems like your FreeBSD has its own version.