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Vim is cool because it's built in to every OS (except maybe Windows) and highly usable even without any configuration and requires very little resources. For m
by kennu 16y ago
Vim is cool because it's built in to every OS (except maybe Windows) and highly usable even without any configuration and requires very little resources.
For me knowing vim has proven a very productive skill. I often work on random new OS installations like virtual machines and cloud instances, and sometimes in very limited environments like embedded Linux devices. It works there just as well as in my regular Mac/Linux environments.
- jrockway 16y agovi is the one built into every OS. Sometimes it happens to be vim, but not always... and other vi variants are quite different from vim.
- krakensden 16y agoReally? I thought nvi and elvis had fallen by the wayside, and now everyone shipped vim (in compatibility mode).
- Xurinos 16y agoI noticed recent distributions (last couple years) deploy a crippled form of vim, halfway between vi and vim. You still have to "sudo apt-get install vim" to get something that is nice.
- krakensden 16y agoYou have to turn off compatibility mode
- yangyang 16y agoOpenBSD certainly doesn't.
- younata 16y agoneither does freebsd.
- krakensden 16y agoAre they shipping nvi then?
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoSlackware comes with /usr/bin/vi symlinked to /usr/bin/elvis by default, although it's easy enough to point it at /usr/bin/vim if you want.