You should know that Vim behaves differently when invoked as vi then when invoked as vim. Therefore, you may want to use vim from now on.
or use elvis. i have come to like elvis quite a lot. the debian install defaults to the elvis GUI, which i can take or leave, but i'm sure there is a way around that ...
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