On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Tim Chase wrote:
Out-of-the-box, most distributions typically come with "vim.tiny" (I
think Fedora calls it "vim-tiny") symlinked to the name vi/vim. This
is a minimal build that gives the core vi experience but doesn't have
all the bells and whistles offered by the "vim", "vim-full",
"vim-enhanced", "vim-gtk", "vim-gnome", etc. packages.
That would explain.
It would be pretty natural to assume that there would no longer be any (or
many) other versions of "vi" doing the rounds. I heard mention of some
nvi thing here. Makes no sense really to maintain some primitive older
classic version of vi, would there.
Except that when I invoke vim.tiny on this Kubuntu, it does the arrow keys
correctly :p
Debian the same.
So not sure again. My memory sometimes also starts to fail as to what
exactly has been the experiences of a few hours ago ;-).
But there is no other server that I have accessed where the ABCD output
occurred, so logic demands that it was one of these two ;-).
On a fresh install, you can check the output of either
$ vi --version
or within vi, invoke
:version
Aye, same output as you. Although I don't have any GUI vim installed.
Never used that, really. No reason to, for me.
--
Xen, (or Bart) ... ;-). Bye.
