replace nvi with traditional vi?

[Alexander Polakov <polachok@xxxxxxxxx>]

 I think we can safely replace nvi with traditional vi [1]. 
 vi supports UTF-8 and then we could use UTF-8 locale
 systemwide. nvi is old and unmaintained, but supports
 more configuration options, while vi is much simpler.
 Anyway, if you want a really powerful text editor it
 would be vim or emacs.

 Do you use feature nvi provides? Would you suffer if it's
 replaced with a smaller vi?

 [1] http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/