On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Volker A. Brandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Denys! > > > > VIM runs in non-compatible mode by default on many if not all Linux > > distributions and frankly I see no reasons why would someone want to > > have it in "compatible" mode. > > Because this is not Linux, and the "system" vi should be as close to > the original Solaris vi it replaced. > > Why can't you just set that for your user account? What is the gain? > Remember that the system vi may be used in a limited environment, > such as a serial system console. Don't fix things that aren't broken. > If you want a true vi, why not use a true vi? (On OI, it seems to be in /usr/xpg6/bin/vi - or even /usr/has/bin/vi for the nostalgic.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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