On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:20:52PM +0200, Abigail wrote:

> What I hate about every Linux distro I've used is that when I type
> 'vi file', I get an editor that isn't vi. It's usually vim. I guess
> that's a great editor for some, and I don't mind it being there.
> But don't call it vi. It isn't. 

At some point in the past, I used a Debian box which, through a twisty
maze of symlinks in /etc/alternatives had typing 'vi' end up running
nano.  Now that is truly hateful.

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