• communism@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Huh, vi for me has always been actual vi, not vim. Didn’t know some systems symlink vi to vim.

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      19 hours ago

      A long time ago, someone posted advocating symlinking vi to emacs. Evil, but entertaining.

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      15 hours ago

      vim has a limited “vi-mode” that it uses if you call it as vi. so it could still be vim.

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        15 hours ago

        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?

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          15 hours ago

          i think there’s also a vim-mini that gets installed by default in some debian-based distros.

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      16 hours ago

      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.