* Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 09:04]: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: > > > vim has a :version command, which other vi clones don't seem to; vim > > :ve is standard. > (:version is also recognized by all of the vi's that I recall - > including elvis).
OK, I stand corrected. However, :ve will still tell him whether he's using vim or not, eh? > > with cp set will still respond to :version, while elvis will not > > (well, it will, but with an error ;). > > one of the annoying things about vim-users is that most of them don't > know much about vi, and tend to ascribe lots of things to vim that are > standard in vi. Hey, Sven, calm down, will ya? ;) Actually, though, my experience has been the opposite: people who are vim users tend to think that vim features are standard vi features, and get upset when, say, ga doesn't do what they expect. A lot of the vi evangelists I know are actually vim evalgelists, and it annoys me, much as it (apparently) annoys you. > (don't be like most vim-users) Actually, I'm not. In fact, on many of the boxen I use regularly, I'm not a vim user at all. I was unaware that other vi's supported :ve; I thought I remembered elvis, at least, not supporting it. (darren) -- Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. -- Paul Tillich