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submitted 1 day ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it'll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It's the lingua franca of text editors.

[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don't)

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.

[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 minutes ago

Really? Not that I'd notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn't be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it's 59KB)

Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)

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