On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:40:03AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On 5/18/07, Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Thu, 17 May 2007, Zach White wrote: > >> > >> -Zach (Who's still upset that there's no way he can use nvi's multi-level > >> undo model when stuck in vim) > > > >Oh you can, except the key bindings are helpfully different. In > >proper^Wnvi, to undo multiple times you type u.... (just like to do > >anything multiple times you type .... after the original action), and to > >undo/redo/undo/redo you type uuuu. In bloated^Wvim, to undo multiple times > >you type uuuu and to undo/redo/undo/redo you type u... OBVIOUSLY. > > Oh, and the behaviour is different depending on whether or not > 'compatible' is set -- which is sensitive to such little things such > as whether a .vimrc exists or not. > > Always bites me when I use a vim somewhere and wonder why it doesn't > behave like my vim. Especially when it is on one of my machines, but > one I haven't used before and haven't set up a .vimrc for yet, so it's > suddenly more vi-compatible and doesn't understand multiple-undo.
What I hate about every Linux distro I've used is that when I type 'vi file', I get an editor that isn't vi. It's usually vim. I guess that's a great editor for some, and I don't mind it being there. But don't call it vi. It isn't. Real Unixes have vi. Linux doesn't. So don't call something else vi. Abigail
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