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Re:Ten Years of Vim by bArray on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:35AM (#17116968)
Okay, so I've come across `vim.tiny` a few times now, what's the difference?

Plain `vi` I can't seem to work out, the shortcuts I usually use all seem to be different?

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Re:Ten Years of Vim by majewsky on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:37AM (#17118254)
vim-tiny differs from regular vim in how much stuff is compiled into it. Regular vim is actually quite hefty since it includes e.g. scripting bindings to Python, Perl, Lua, etc.; or support for X11 (which is useful even in a terminal for working with the X clipboard), and so on. If you have both vim and vim-tiny installed, you can use the command ":version" to compare which features have been compiled in.
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