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Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives



Paul E Condon wrote:
> 'vi' is not in this list, so I can't say what vim.tiny should do when
> it is invoked via the update-alternatives symlink, vi, but I think it
> is not doing something that its maintainers intend. Is this a bug? Or
> is it working in some mode that is useful, but only to those users who
> are familiar with that secret?

It's operating in a mode that is as close to classical unix vi as
possible with vim. Specifically, it's intended to be fairly close to how
nvi works, since nvi was what you got if you ran "vi" in a default
install prior to etch.

> I suppose that separating out vim-doc into a package by itself is a
> convenient way to keep Debian small for server boxes, but can't
> vim-doc be included in the 'Desktop environment' task in tasksel?

What does vim documentation have to do with a Desktop?

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