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Vi is a standard not a specific implementation. There was an original Vi, but since it's a standard unix tool, it got cloned by everyone who ever made a unix cl
by adrusi 11y ago
Vi is a standard not a specific implementation. There was an original Vi, but since it's a standard unix tool, it got cloned by everyone who ever made a unix clone after it was added to BSD.
Vim can be invoked to conform to the vi standard, although usually it only gets used that way when a vim user is on an unfamiliar machine.
- Syssiphus 11y agoInteresting view. I've never seen vi as a standard. But it makes sense.
- bch 11y agoTechnically something can't call itself Unix(tm) without vi(1) [0][1] [0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/vi.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/vi.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification