• @AntY
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    2811 hours ago

    Vi hasn’t been updated since 2005. Aren’t everyone just using vim or neovim?

      • @[email protected]
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        99 hours ago

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

        • lime!
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          45 hours ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            14 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?

            • lime!
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              14 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          36 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.

        • @toynbee
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          128 hours ago

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