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I don't understand why so many distros ship vi instead of vim. Vim was realeased as an improvement in 1991!!!
by randomNumber7 4y ago
I don't understand why so many distros ship vi instead of vim. Vim was realeased as an improvement in 1991!!!
- ihatepython 4y agoTo save precious disk space
- chasd00 4y agoIncluding Vi-improved would be complicit in the assumption there was an imperfection in vi.
- GuB-42 4y agoI am not aware of many distros shipping the original vi today. However, a lot of them ship busybox, which is a self-contained and lightweight collection of standard UNIX tools, including a simplified vi. If you have a UNIX shell on an embedded system, there is a good chance it is running busybox. vim is an order of magnitude bigger than the entire busybox package. In fact, it may be bigger than the entire system.