editors in rescue mode

[Karl Larsen]

Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> 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.  ;)
>
>   
    Whatever you call it, it was a great idea of someone to put vim in 
Ubuntu. It is a great editor.

Karl


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