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They usually have one of the many clones of vi, installed as vi. Very few use actual vi, because for many years it was out-of-bounds because it used AT&T code f
by LukeShu 13y ago
They usually have one of the many clones of vi, installed as vi. Very few use actual vi, because for many years it was out-of-bounds because it used AT&T code from ed.
- meepmorp 13y agoYeah, I meant whatever generic vi-alike is installed instead of vim.
- voltagex_ 13y agoInteresting. What's the easiest way to check which vi binary I have?
- a3n 13y ago$ update-alternatives --display vi vi - auto mode link currently points to /usr/bin/vim.gtk ... Or you could brute force it: $ ll $(which vi) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 16 17:14 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi* $ ll /etc/alternatives/vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 17 06:07 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.gtk* $ ll /usr/bin/vim.gtk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2391176 Apr 2 03:18 /usr/bin/vim.gtk* vim.gtk is likely coded to behave differently depending on how it was invoked, as vim or vi for example.