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Last time I installed Arch, it did not. Also checking Scientific, it does not (assume also RHEL/CentOS).

• MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  Arch definitely doesn't. sometimes I accidentally type vi and am confused for a few seconds why things dont work right. Luckily an alias will fix it.
  • graywh 15y ago
    Is it a case where vi is a version with the tiny feature set and vim has a larger (huge) feature set?
    • telemachos 15y ago
      Sounds reasonable. I was about to guess a similar thing. A minimal Debian install (perhaps Ubuntu and other child-distros as well?) installs a vim-tiny[1], which often throws people off[2]. [1] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/vim-tiny http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/vim-tiny [2] http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=site:forums.debian.net+vim-tiny&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
      • graywh 15y ago
        But Debian, etc. updates /usr/bin/vi to point to the Vim with the most features.
    • keenerd 15y ago
      No. It was like that (where vi is just a lightweight recompile of vim) several years ago. Since then Arch has switched to using ex-vi[1], the closest thing to 'authentic' vi you can get nowadays. [1] http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net
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