On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:06:49 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > 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. > > There is no vi. vi is dead. There are only vi compatables.
So untrue. Following up on Abigail's hate, there have been numerous times in the recent month that I typed 'ex -v' just to NOT get into some vi clone like gvim or vim. And hate to the (Linux) distro's that also replace ex with some vim clone! > Long live vim. Long live elvis. Elvis isn't dead, he lives! % alias emacs=vi -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.2, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
