I kind of agree but vim's defaults are awful. I wonder whether that is because of vim compiled defaults or the way people who package vim think things should b

I kind of agree but vim's defaults are awful. I wonder whether that is because of vim compiled defaults or the way people who package vim think things should be, or both? I get so angry every time I log into my newly created Linux account and fire up vi, wanting to get some work done, only to find out that it's been aliased to vim, and there is that horrid syntax highlighting turned on. Unbelievably irritating, and frustrating to no end. Ironically, on AmigaOS where vim comes from, there are no customizations and no syntax highlighting - vim just works there as one would expect vi to work on UNIX.