RE: vi and vim

[Wade Turland <wturland@cit.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

I think the responses missed the point of my original message. The point
is that I installed the distribution and found that I had a broken vi,
and it wasn't until I compiled and installed vim that it started
working.

I take the point about licensing. There is raging heat being generated
on the vim home page and mailing lists because Sven Guckes wants a lean
and mean vim whereas the user's votes indicate a more useful gui (The
copyright owner Bram Moolenaar is working toward the 'highest vote
features'). So a rewrite was suggested but Sven had to admit his respect
for the copyright ownership.

So vim can't be used due to licensing.

But the question still remains. If Bram can get vim to work, why are we
distributing broken vi's?

NOTE - to the fundamentalists who want the 'original' vi: One of the
things Bram implemented in vim 5.0 was a step towards the original vi,
such that vim now has a *default* 'compatible' mode which even
implements some of vi's bugs!