[xubuntu-users] vim without gvim?

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On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:20 AM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been using vi and clones since around 1984, so I'm pretty much
> > married to them. I've just started dabbling with a pure xubuntu
> > install, and found that my naïve addition of vim also pulled in a huge
> > bunch of other packages, including gnome libraries that I'd prefer to
> > not have.
> >
> > I don't really want a GUI editor, as I learned vim without a mouse and
> > consider the mouse a hindrance for almost everything except menus and
> > explicily graphical chores.
> >
> > Is there a keyboard-only vim package, or will I have to roll my own?
> >
> > --
> > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
> I'm not sure what you've done there. It would seem you've installed
> vim-gnome... which is the gui version. If you'd installed vim [7.2]
> you'd have got what you wanted. nvi if you want a pure vi version.
>
> james
>
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sudo apt-get install vim is all you need
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