On 2007-04-30 15:05, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: >>On 2007-04-30 08:52, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Does this mean just Linux? If so, say so. (I thought *BSD >>> shipped with both 'standard' vi and vim ...) >> >> FWIW, >> >> The base system of FreeBSD contains nvi. >> >> vim is also available too, as a thirdparty package, through the >> FreeBSD "Ports Collection". > > Yes ... what I'm saying is that /usr/bin/vi being equal to 'vim' > seems to be a Linicism, rather than a general "open source OS" > trait. It's an overly-broad claim in the proposal.
Indeed. I'm not disagreeing with ``I thought *BSD shipped with both 'standard' vi and vim''. I'm only clarifying it a bit to: ``The BSDs ship with nvi, and make vim easy to install''. > That it's a Linux idea doesn't necessarily make it wrong, but > in order to make the proposal accurate, the text should in fact > say what it means. Agreed 100%. _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
