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`vim` is as easily installable as `vi`. If you want to be confident that the editor is present on the system, you could also choose to use `ed` which is also i
by Daviey 2y ago
`vim` is as easily installable as `vi`. If you want to be confident that the editor is present on the system, you could also choose to use `ed` which is also included in POSIX.1-2001 Utilities and POSIX.1-2008 Utilities.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIt's a series of probabilities; much of the time, you can install whatever editor you want, but vi being included in ex. busybox means that there are places where it's really nice to be able to use vi because it's there by default and installing something else would be inconvenient. For example, every Alpine Linux container has vi, as does the OpenWRT base system.