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#Vim #Meme (static.mamot.fr)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

vim (and especially neovim) have WAY more features than vi and different shortcuts. Running vim with the "vi" symlink emulates vi and disabled a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I can't confirm this. when using vi, I have syntax highlighting, split windows and even search and replace. Even my Termux installation states it's vi improved, when issuing vi -h.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

More than likely your os is just symlinking vi to vim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

That's what I'm trying to say - in the probably most upsetting way - All of my distros - Ubuntu, Nobara, Debian and so on: all of them have vi as a symlink - only, these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not all! My arch Linux install definitely has the original vi -- the one where when you cw it doesn't delete the word until you go back to normal mode to save on screen refresh. Plugins? Custom commands? Multiple buffers? Forget it!