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We also need to understand that a subset of vi features is part of the POSIX standard, so any POSIX system will need to have "vi". vim is the logical choice the
by mtippett 6y ago
We also need to understand that a subset of vi features is part of the POSIX standard, so any POSIX system will need to have "vi". vim is the logical choice there.
So as a result vim has become the reference implementation for the POSIX vi featureset.
- catalogia 6y agoAll of vi is specified by POSIX, but vi is only a subset of vim.
- moonchild 6y agoRight, but vim is a popular, easy-to-package implementation of vi.
- smhenderson 6y agoAgreed and if you somehow really need strict POSIX compatibility than Vim’s compat settings make it behave almost 100% like traditional vi.