<p dir="ltr">Vim is the libre version. The original vi was licensed under non-gnu friendly terms. And vim is a vast improvement.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 15, 2014 1:50 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/15/2014 11:51 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:<br>
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> Also featured: an appearance by Saint IGNUcius (<br>
> <a href="https://stallman.org/saint.html" target="_blank">https://stallman.org/saint.html</a> ) to general hilarity. The Saint<br>
> officially declared that vi is Not Sinful as long as you are using a<br>
> libre version (e.g. Vim). During the Q/A period one of our own (<br>
> Avery!) asked about Emacs Evil, but the Saint seemed unfamiliar with<br>
> that vi emulator which runs on emacs.<br>
help me out here... libre version , Vim??<br>
my current testing version of fedora shows:<br>
vim-X11.x86_64 2:7.4.475-2.fc21<br>
updates-testing<br>
<br>
is that good or bad??<br>
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sorry I missed it! ( the talk, that is..)<br>
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--<br>
Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587<br>
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