Re: vi in Debian (slink)
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 06:18:57PM -0000, Pollywog wrote:
> vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really
> vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems?
>
> vim works well, but vi is weird. It acts buggy.
vi could be nvi, elvis, or vim, or another VI if we had one.
I use nvi here and I've never found it to be buggy. Most likely you're
used to the way vim does things. nvi is much more authentic. I've never
seen an advantage to using vim personally.
Hamish
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