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Quick Linux Peeve

You know what’s lame? I frequently log in to Linux boxen and try to invoke “vim” only to get “command not found.” Now, this would be reasonable on Solaris or BSD, where they maintain their own version of vi, but in Linux, vi is vim, only it is vi, and not vim. Why? … It seems so pretentious. “Vim? You mean ‘vee eye?’ I got one of them, sure, although it is just vim … but you’ll have to type vi. You know, that’s how it is done on Unix systems.”

Or is there some GNU vi that is going around?

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  • http://www.kgarner.com/blog Keith Garner

    Okay, a few things. There are multiple vi implementations around. Does slackware still use elvis? In any case, with Redhat/Fedora, while vi is VIM, its a very minimal old-skool as possible vi. You need to install vim-enhanced to get vim and all its additional features.

  • http://dannyman.toldme.com/ Danny Howard

    Well, I only ever use the “vim-lite” port on FreeBSD. Syntax highlighting and infinite-undo is enough to make me happy. I can rationalize why you’d want to seperate minimal “vi” vim from the add-on package, but I need something to kvetch about.

  • shahab borz

    i need some help about real time programming in qlinux with c or c++.
    thanks.

  • http://acs jim dooris

    Where can I get a list of the qlinux commands

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