<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:20 AM, James Freer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com" target="_blank">jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've been using vi and clones since around 1984, so I'm pretty much<br>
> married to them. I've just started dabbling with a pure xubuntu<br>
> install, and found that my naïve addition of vim also pulled in a huge<br>
> bunch of other packages, including gnome libraries that I'd prefer to<br>
> not have.<br>
><br>
> I don't really want a GUI editor, as I learned vim without a mouse and<br>
> consider the mouse a hindrance for almost everything except menus and<br>
> explicily graphical chores.<br>
><br>
> Is there a keyboard-only vim package, or will I have to roll my own?<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not sure what you've done there. It would seem you've installed<br>
vim-gnome... which is the gui version. If you'd installed vim [7.2]<br>
you'd have got what you wanted. nvi if you want a pure vi version.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
james<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>sudo apt-get install vim is all you need</div>