Re: vi in Debian (slink)
Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com> writes:
Pollywog> vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my
Pollywog> system is not really vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to
Pollywog> vim on most systems?
On "most" Unix systems (including the Suns and SGIs I use on a routine
basis) 'vi' is a pretty minimal text editor. vim has *lots* of
features that you wouldn't expect a plain-vanilla vi to have. I've
gotten used to using 'vim' as my text editor so I know what I'm
getting; 'vi' could be anything.
(Of course, this isn't to say that I don't use Emacs or even ed to
edit things from time to time... :-)
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