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    VI is love, VI is life (jlai.lu)
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    [–] communism@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Huh, vi for me has always been actual vi, not vim. Didn't know some systems symlink vi to vim.

    [–] toynbee@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

    A long time ago, someone posted advocating symlinking vi to emacs. Evil, but entertaining.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    vim has a limited "vi-mode" that it uses if you call it as vi. so it could still be vim.

    [–] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Ohh that makes more sense. Yeah perhaps, although come to think of it I still need to install vim from the package manager even if vi works fresh out of the box so maybe not?

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    i think there's also a vim-mini that gets installed by default in some debian-based distros.

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

    I had to make an alias vim=vim.tiny in raspberry pi since standard vim is not installed by default

    [–] Xanza@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

    Vim is the preferred experience, so it's for end users. Unless you have a system with no real addons and classic *nix environment, you're almost always going to be using Vim. Alpine linux is a good example of a stripped down environment that still uses Vi.