[arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:02:43 -0400
Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:47, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon 22 Jun 2009 03:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >> I will downgrade vi. If that is what the future of vi looks like, I
> >> don't want any part of it. Changes that dramatic ought to be
> >> forked.
> >
> > You were previously using vim named 'vi'.
> > The new one is actually a fork of vi called nvi.
> >
> >
> 
> I don't understand why anyone would use any vi. Use vim instead...

One of the things I've learned from maintaining stuff: never
underestimate the diversity of requirements/values people have.
If you look at the suckless community for instance, you'll find many of
them who consider vim bloatware.

Dieter