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> Now 'nano' is not nano anymore. Nothing beats plain old 'vi' (NOT vim!).
by zvrba 6y ago
> Now 'nano' is not nano anymore.
Nothing beats plain old 'vi' (NOT vim!).
- jedimastert 6y agoCan you highlight what differences make you choose vi over vim?
- Someone 6y agoI think the comment is about vi scoring better on “lack of features” than vim, not about preferring vi over vim. Of course, ed beats that, and the combination of cat and echo with redirection beats that (for a very limited definition of ‘editor’)
- marcocampos 6y agoDo distros still come with original vi? My understanding is that when you type 'vi' you get a minimal version of vim on most (all?) distros theses days.
- zvrba 6y ago'vi' is still 'vi' in OSX, and I believe the "original" 'vi' is accessible as 'nvi' on the usual Linux distros. (e.g., https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nvi https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nvi)
- fanf2 6y agonvi is new vi, released as part of 4.3BSD-net2. The only place I have encountered original vi is on Solaris. Solaris vi does horrible things like crashing if you maximize your xterm too big...