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Finally a Linux that doesn't come with vim!
by b0rsuk 7y ago
Finally a Linux that doesn't come with vim!
- dijit 7y agoI’m pretty sure this is an attempt at humour. But minimal installations of the major distros do not have vim, in face I think Ubuntu makes nano the default $EDITOR (but I am not 100% on that) But nothing I’ve seen makes me believe that vim isn’t available for this “platform”, nor do I think it’s inherently harmful to have a 500KiB program unused on a drive. (As this statement implies).
- jng 7y agoMost (if not all) Linux distros come with a “vi” (mandated by Posix) which is a plain, basic, feature-starved build of vim. I believe Posix having included vi as a requirement contributed to the status of vi as the omnipresent text editor.
- b0rsuk 7y agoYou're right, it does in fact come with 'vi' :-).