Consider removing vim-tiny from Ubuntu in the future

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Thu Jun 18 04:37:29 UTC 2009


On 2009-06-16, Chan Chung Hang Christopher 
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
>> To be honest, if a broken version of vi has to been exist in Ubuntu, I
>> would rather perfer not to have vi pre-installed to please all the
>> vi-hater.
>>
>>   
>
> It is not broken. It cannot be since there is no vi in Ubuntu. What you 
> have is a vi clone, vim.
>
>
> You can also forget about removing vim-tiny because it provides for 
> POSIX conformance of vi. Unless you want nvi instead of vim.
>
I hardly ever use vim, I usually use nano, but my system has vim-tiny
installed and the arrow keys work for me.






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