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From: Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to get vi!?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:52:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060925205210.GB5802@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609252051.03914.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

060925 Mick wrote:
> On Monday 25 September 2006 16:53, Timo Boettcher wrote:
>> Even though I am sure the OP meant vim, vim is NOT vi.
> How does one get Vi?
> I thought that it comes with any vanilla Linux installation.

More likely a BSD or IRIX.  If you really want olde worlde Vi,
Vim has a setting to make it so, but why would anyone want that ?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25 11:16 [gentoo-user] how to get vi!? Patric Douhane
     [not found] ` <200609251330.14374.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>
2006-09-25 15:53   ` Timo Boettcher
2006-09-25 19:50     ` Mick
2006-09-25 20:07       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-09-25 20:52       ` Philip Webb [this message]
2006-09-25 21:45         ` Mick
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2006-09-25 11:37 Öhler, Alessandro
     [not found] <6YWFl-7hi-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-09-25 23:58 ` Peter Wu

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