editors in rescue mode

[Steve C. Lamb]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:16:37PM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> vim is just an extension of vi.  On Ubuntu they are in fact the same
> binaries.  vi comands are a subset of vim commands.

    Uhm, no.  vim is not vi.  Vim is not "an extension" of vi.  vim is an
editor modeled after vi but is not the same code base.  It has a bug-for-bug
compatiblity mode with vi and this is what is loaded in Ubuntu instead of vi.
However, calling vim the same as vi would be like callimg GNU EMACS and XEMACS
the same.  ;)

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