vi Editor

The vi program is a popular text editor on all Unix systems, and Vim is a popular vi clone with expanded regular expression support. Both use a DFA match engine. For an explanation of the rules behind a DFA engine, see "Introduction to Regexes and Pattern Matching.”

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