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If by vi you mean vim, then I agree, real vi is rather lite. As someone famous said, "everything is relative" :) Compared to the new applications that have be
by jmclnx 8mo ago
If by vi you mean vim, then I agree, real vi is rather lite.
As someone famous said, "everything is relative" :) Compared to the new applications that have been coming out, Emacs and vim are a paragon of lightness.
- irishcoffee 8mo agoI agree with you that vi is lighter than vim. I’ve seen more than a few instances of an OS just aliasing vi to vim. On that note, why are the keybindings for vi on a “modern” Ubuntu different from fedoras? I remember having to mess with ^H in a vimrc or something to that effect to mimic the behavior I was expecting.
- cwillu 8mo agoSounds like the terminal (not vi) you're using has different defaults; backspace and delete are the two common keys that vary.
- irishcoffee 8mo agoThat makes a lot of sense. I'll do some research on different terminal behaviors. Thanks!
- JohnFen 8mo agoVim is heavier, but vi is not at all "lite".
- jmclnx 8mo agoI do not know what you are saying. On NetBSD I see this with vi and vim editing the same file VSZ RSS MAXRSS COMMAND 13240 2896 2896 /usr/bin/vi x.txt 45412 15212 15212 /usr/pkg/bin/vim x.txt