Re: vi and vim

[Felix Schroeter <uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Hello!

On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 02:19:51PM -0500, Craig Metz wrote:
> [...]

>   Several Linux distributions ship vi clones as their vi, and it drives me
> crazy. "Improved" is clearly a matter of opinion. It's ok to ship with packages
> of different vi clones (if the licenses allow) and to allow the user to choose
> what the vi name actually runs, but IMO it's NOT ok to ship anything other than
> vi as the default vi. vim is not vi. elvis is not vi. vile is not vi.

But we ship with nvi as the default vi, as the original vi isn't
free enough either :-)

Regards, Felix.