POSIX actually has a standard for vi, so it has to be there if you’re claiming some level of compliance. Standard vi is also more pedantic about usage than vim, and IIRC, vim will open up without its more hand holdy features if you launch it linked from vi.
Ohh that makes more sense. Yeah perhaps, although come to think of it I still need to install vim from the package manager even if vi works fresh out of the box so maybe not?
Vim is the preferred experience, so it’s for end users. Unless you have a system with no real addons and classic *nix environment, you’re almost always going to be using Vim. Alpine linux is a good example of a stripped down environment that still uses Vi.
Vi hasn’t been updated since 2005. Aren’t everyone just using vim or neovim?
I use whatever the machine gives me when I type
vi, I assume it’s usually vimHuh,
vifor me has always been actual vi, not vim. Didn’t know some systems symlink vi to vim.POSIX actually has a standard for vi, so it has to be there if you’re claiming some level of compliance. Standard vi is also more pedantic about usage than vim, and IIRC, vim will open up without its more hand holdy features if you launch it linked from vi.
A long time ago, someone posted advocating symlinking
vitoemacs. Evil, but entertaining.vim has a limited “vi-mode” that it uses if you call it as vi. so it could still be vim.
Ohh that makes more sense. Yeah perhaps, although come to think of it I still need to install vim from the package manager even if vi works fresh out of the box so maybe not?
i think there’s also a
vim-minithat gets installed by default in some debian-based distros.Vim is the preferred experience, so it’s for end users. Unless you have a system with no real addons and classic *nix environment, you’re almost always going to be using Vim. Alpine linux is a good example of a stripped down environment that still uses Vi.
Not to imply that Vi is perfect, but Vi is perfect. What do you need an update for? /s