<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Volker A. Brandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vab@bb-c.de" target="_blank">vab@bb-c.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Denys!<br>
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> VIM runs in non-compatible mode by default on many if not all Linux<br>
> distributions and frankly I see no reasons why would someone want to<br>
> have it in "compatible" mode.<br>
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</span>Because this is not Linux, and the "system" vi should be as close to<br>
the original Solaris vi it replaced.<br>
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Why can't you just set that for your user account? What is the gain?<br>
Remember that the system vi may be used in a limited environment,<br>
such as a serial system console. Don't fix things that aren't broken.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you want a true vi, why not use a true vi?<br><br></div><div>(On OI, it seems to be in /usr/xpg6/bin/vi - or even /usr/has/bin/vi for<br></div><div>the nostalgic.) <br></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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