On Apr 15, Robert D. Hilliard wrote > It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use >vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly. > > Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis >(maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to them. >A year ago when I was running Slackware, I thought I learned enough >about vi to use it, but not well. Then I found I was learning elvis, >not vi. When I first installed Debian I tried using 'vi' (I don't >remember which of the almost clones it really was) and found that >some of the commands I was familiar with caused the famous "unexpected >results", so I gave up. > > Which of the vi semi-clones on Debian is most like the original >vi and most likely to work on a broad range of unices? > >Bob
That's a pretty difficult question, since I'm not sure there are many around who remember that much about what vi originally looked like. However, vim has an option for running in vi-compatible mode. Put the line "set compatible" in your ~/.vimrc file. You're giving up an awful lot by doing so, though. - rick -- Richard Kilgore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical & Computer Engineering | http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~rkilgore/ The University of Texas at Austin | (512) 471-8011
