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All the time, at least twice already today. Another common command that I'll start typing only to switch context from is vim.
by kellyjprice 9y ago
All the time, at least twice already today. Another common command that I'll start typing only to switch context from is vim.
- smellf 9y agoThink about all the keystrokes you'd save if you just typed "vi" instead.
- kellyjprice 9y agoThat's a habit I may never break. There's been enough times that vi was actually vi.
- Gaelan 9y agoWhat kind of evil system ships with both vi and vim?
- sverige 9y agoOpenBSD comes standard with vi. Vim is a package.
- simias 9y agoIt ships nvi, as do the other BSDs. I think it's reasonable, BSDs have a stronger divide between the base system and third party packages, I'm not sure it would make a lot of sense to maintain vim as part of the former. Besides on my FreeBSD system /usr/bin/vi is around 400kB while on my Debian machine /usr/bin/vim.basic is 2.4MB. It's not much these days but on embedded platform it could still make a significant difference.
- sverige 9y agoYep, and "nex/nvi are intended as bug-for-bug compatible replacements for the original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) ex and vi programs."
- smellf 9y agoDebian is the same way. But as soon as you open a file with vi on a fresh install, you know it isn't vim, so you close the editor, install vim, and then the vi command opens vim.