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

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