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Re:The Linux Upskill Challenge by randomNumber7 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:18AM (#34653315)
I don't understand why so many distros ship vi instead of vim. Vim was realeased as an improvement in 1991!!!
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Re:The Linux Upskill Challenge by ihatepython on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:54AM (#34653769)
To save precious disk space
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Re:The Linux Upskill Challenge by chasd00 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:23AM (#34654275)
Including Vi-improved would be complicit in the assumption there was an imperfection in vi.
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Re:The Linux Upskill Challenge by GuB-42 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:20AM (#34654669)
I am not aware of many distros shipping the original vi today. However, a lot of them ship busybox, which is a self-contained and lightweight collection of standard UNIX tools, including a simplified vi. If you have a UNIX shell on an embedded system, there is a good chance it is running busybox.

vim is an order of magnitude bigger than the entire busybox package. In fact, it may be bigger than the entire system.

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