On 2010-08-11, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote: > >Hello, > > > >At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to > >use vi instead of vim in cygwin? > > > >I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't > >linked to one iteration or another of vim. > > > >If not, c'est la vie. > > Cygwin provides the vim package, which creates a link to 'vim-nox.exe' > called 'vi'. Unless you set 'nocompatible' in your ~/.vimrc, you will get > a vi-compatible version of vim.
Actually, just the presence of ~/.vimrc will set 'nocompatible'. See :help compatible-default If you want a vi-compatible vim, name your rc file .exrc and not .vimrc. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple