Shawn Walker wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 3:00 AM, James C. McPherson <James.McPherson at sun.com> wrote: >> what does vim offer you in a safemode environment that >> /usr/bin/vi does not? > > The urge to not pull your hair out? :) > > Seriously though. For me, it's the multiple undo when I have to edit a > big configuration file and better input/terminal support. > > Most GNU/Linux distributions ship vi symlinked to vim so that it runs > in vi-compatibility mode and the version of vi we have is positively > ancient.
That seems like a reasonable compromise. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
