• @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

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

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      91 month ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          1 month ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month 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 :)