<p dir="ltr">Yeah. Rhel and fedora just have symlinks from vi to vim. They dumped old vi years ago. Rhel 3 had vi with optional vim.</p>
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<div>Oops, sorry, I meant a libre version of vi, such as vim.<br>
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-- CHS<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Paul
Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>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>
</span>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>
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is that good or bad??<br>
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sorry I missed it! ( the talk, that is..)<br>
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looking at my installed packages, it looks like VIM 7.4 ( per the
HELP)..<br>
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weird, typing:<br>
vim fred- :help shows for Vim version 7.4<br>
vi fred- :help shows Vim version 7.1 <br>
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I don't show a "vi" package..<br>
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587</pre>
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