diff --git a/development/ex-vi/README b/development/ex-vi/README
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+ex-vi (traditional vi)
+
+Bill Joy's original vi for UNIX.
+
+This port of vi has generally preserved the original style, terminal
+control, and feature set. It adds support for international character
+sets, including multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, and some minor
+enhancements that were not present in BSD vi 3.7, but had been included
+in later vi versions for System V or in POSIX.2.
+
+The "Introduction to Display Editing with Vi" mentioned in the man page
+can be found at: http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/viin/paper.html
+
+See README_Slackware.txt for Slack-specific details about this build.
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/README_Slackware.txt b/development/ex-vi/README_Slackware.txt
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+
+To avoid conflicting with Slackware's elvis and vim packages, this build
+installs binaries to /opt/ex-vi/bin and man pages to /opt/ex-vi/man,
+along with a script in /etc/profile.d to prepend these paths to PATH and
+MANPATH. If you *really* want, you can replace the /usr/bin/vi symlink
+(that normally points to elvis or vim), but it shouldn't be necessary.
+
+After installing, either log out & back in, or "source
+/etc/profile.d/ex-vi.sh". To temporarily disable the scripts, remove
+their execute bits. Users can always set PATH and MANPATH in their own
+dotfiles, of course.
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/doinst.sh b/development/ex-vi/doinst.sh
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+config() {
+  NEW="$1"
+  OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)"
+  # If there's no config file by that name, mv it over:
+  if [ ! -r $OLD ]; then
+    mv $NEW $OLD
+  elif [ "$(cat $OLD | md5sum)" = "$(cat $NEW | md5sum)" ]; then
+    # toss the redundant copy
+    rm $NEW
+  fi
+  # Otherwise, we leave the .new copy for the admin to consider...
+}
+
+preserve_perms() {
+  NEW="$1"
+  OLD="$(dirname $NEW)/$(basename $NEW .new)"
+  if [ -e $OLD ]; then
+    cp -a $OLD ${NEW}.incoming
+    cat $NEW > ${NEW}.incoming
+    mv ${NEW}.incoming $NEW
+  fi
+  config $NEW
+}
+
+preserve_perms etc/profile.d/ex-vi.sh.new
+preserve_perms etc/profile.d/ex-vi.csh.new
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.SlackBuild b/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for ex-vi
+
+# Written by B. Watson (yalhcru@gmail.com)
+
+# Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
+
+PRGNAM=ex-vi
+VERSION=${VERSION:-050325}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
+       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
+else
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+TARNAME=ex
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP
+rm -rf $TARNAME-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$TARNAME-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+cd $TARNAME-$VERSION
+chown -R root:root .
+find -L . \
+ \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
+ -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
+ -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+
+# don't install the binary with the sticky bit set. It doesn't do anything
+# on Linux, and might set off alarm bells.
+sed -i 's,-m 1755,-m 755,' Makefile
+
+# To avoid conflicts with Slackware's elvis and/or vim, we install to /opt and
+# include a login script to set PATH and MANPATH.
+make all install \
+  CC="gcc $SLKCFLAGS" \
+  MANDIR=/opt/$PRGNAM/man \
+  PREFIX=/opt/$PRGNAM \
+  INSTALL=install \
+  DESTDIR=$PKG
+
+# binary already stripped, yay
+
+find $PKG/opt/$PRGNAM/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+for i in $( find $PKG/opt/$PRGNAM/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/etc/profile.d
+install -m0755 -oroot -groot $CWD/$PRGNAM.sh.new $PKG/etc/profile.d
+install -m0755 -oroot -groot $CWD/$PRGNAM.csh.new $PKG/etc/profile.d
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a Changes LICENSE README TODO $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/README_Slackware.txt > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/README_Slackware.txt
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.csh.new b/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.csh.new
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+#!/bin/csh
+
+# Login script for SlackBuilds.org ex-vi, csh-flavoured edition.
+# The /opt stuff is prepended, so it takes precedence over /usr.
+
+set path = ( /opt/ex-vi/bin $path )
+setenv MANPATH /opt/ex-vi/man:$MANPATH
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.info b/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.info
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+PRGNAM="ex-vi"
+VERSION="050325"
+HOMEPAGE="http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/"
+DOWNLOAD="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ex-vi/ex-vi/050325/ex-050325.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="e668595254233e4d96811083a3e4e2f3"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+REQUIRES=""
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="yalhcru@gmail.com"
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.sh.new b/development/ex-vi/ex-vi.sh.new
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Login script for SlackBuilds.org ex-vi, Bourne-flavoured edition.
+# The /opt stuff is prepended, so it takes precedence over /usr.
+
+PATH=/opt/ex-vi/bin:$PATH
+MANPATH=/opt/ex-vi/man:$MANPATH
+
+export PATH
+export MANPATH
diff --git a/development/ex-vi/slack-desc b/development/ex-vi/slack-desc
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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
+# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
+# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
+# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
+
+     |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+ex-vi: ex-vi (traditional vi)
+ex-vi:
+ex-vi: Bill Joy's original vi for UNIX.
+ex-vi:
+ex-vi: This port of vi has generally preserved the original style, terminal
+ex-vi: control, and feature set. It adds support for international character
+ex-vi: sets, including multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, and some minor
+ex-vi: enhancements that were not present in BSD vi 3.7, but had been
+ex-vi: included in later vi versions for System V or in POSIX.2.
+ex-vi:
+ex-vi: