[ale] Richard Stallman at the University of Georgia

[Jim Kinney]

Yeah. Rhel and fedora just have symlinks from vi to vim. They dumped old vi
years ago. Rhel 3 had vi with optional vim.
On Oct 15, 2014 3:21 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 10/15/2014 02:22 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>
>  Oops, sorry, I meant a libre version of vi, such as vim.
>
>  -- CHS
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/15/2014 11:51 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>> >
>> > Also featured: an appearance by Saint IGNUcius (
>> > https://stallman.org/saint.html ) to general hilarity.  The Saint
>> > officially declared that vi is Not Sinful as long as you are using a
>> > libre version (e.g. Vim).  During the Q/A period one of our own (
>> > Avery!) asked about Emacs Evil, but the Saint seemed unfamiliar with
>> > that vi emulator which runs on emacs.
>> help me out here... libre version , Vim??
>> my current testing version of fedora shows:
>> vim-X11.x86_64                           2:7.4.475-2.fc21
>> updates-testing
>>
>> is that good or bad??
>>
>> sorry I missed it! ( the talk, that is..)
>>
>>
>   looking at my installed packages, it looks like VIM 7.4 ( per the
> HELP)..
>
> weird, typing:
> vim fred- :help shows for Vim version 7.4
> vi fred- :help shows Vim version 7.1
>
> I don't show a "vi" package..
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
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