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Vi != Vim

• deleted 13y ago
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  • dolcaer 13y ago
    I can see how technically, you can consider them the same. But anyone who's used to vim will have quite a bad time in vi because of all the things that don't work.
  • theon144 13y ago
    What? That's not true at all, though I don't know about the "more advanced" functions, since I quit vi and start using vim as soon as I can - because even things like insert mode completely differ.
  • desipenguin 13y ago
    "Most of vim is from vi" doesn't mean it is same. For Vi != Vim to be wrong (or Vi == Vim to be true) everything that Vim provides MUST work with vi as well - only then they are same/equal.
  • adamors 13y ago
    Most of the features Vim is used for don't exist in vi. Vi doesn't have visual mode, syntax highlighting, multiple level undo etc. Also, Vim is 20+ years old as well. Edit: grammar
  • peatfreak 13y ago
    The irony of calling somebody out on a false statement with a false statement of your own... Vim is more or less a superset of vi. Even still, there are some subtle behaviors in real vi that do not work the same in Vim, even in Vim's "compatible" mode. Of all the vi-like editors, Nvi is much closer to real vi than Vim is.
• bifrost 13y ago
  Yeah, I see people get lost going VIM -> NVI all the time. Kinda wish NVI had some of the vim macro/etc functionality in it.
  • elmindreda 13y ago
    vi != nvi != Vim Try using heirloom vi or Solaris vi sometime. Even nvi adds a lot of convenience.
    • bifrost 13y ago
      No doubt, I have definately gone there, its a lil more of a PITA :)
• coldtea 13y ago
  Yes, only nobody cares about and nobody uses vi anymore. Even the "vi" mode in a lot of distros is vim with a compatibility flag. And people only use it in an unknown system to edit some admin files in a hurry. Vi in 2013 == Vim.
  • LeonidasXIV 13y ago
    Vi in 2003 == Vim.