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

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 12:27:01 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:02 AM, 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...

I've always harped on this point. I use "vim". Vim is the name of the
application that I use. Vim just happens to be largely vi compatible,
but I still use vim.


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