vi and vim

vi and vim

[Dave Robison]

  Hello,

At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to 
use vi instead of vim in cygwin?

I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't 
linked to one iteration or another of vim.

If not, c'est la vie.

Thanks for your time,

Dave



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Re: vi and vim

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to
> use vi instead of vim in cygwin?
>
> I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't
> linked to one iteration or another of vim.
>
> If not, c'est la vie.

Cygwin provides the vim package, which creates a link to 'vim-nox.exe'
called 'vi'.  Unless you set 'nocompatible' in your ~/.vimrc, you will get
a vi-compatible version of vim.  vim is the only package in the Cygwin
distribution providing 'vi'.

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Re: vi and vim

[Gary Johnson]

On 2010-08-11, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to
> >use vi instead of vim in cygwin?
> >
> >I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't
> >linked to one iteration or another of vim.
> >
> >If not, c'est la vie.
> 
> Cygwin provides the vim package, which creates a link to 'vim-nox.exe'
> called 'vi'.  Unless you set 'nocompatible' in your ~/.vimrc, you will get
> a vi-compatible version of vim.

Actually, just the presence of ~/.vimrc will set 'nocompatible'.
See

    :help compatible-default

If you want a vi-compatible vim, name your rc file .exrc and not
.vimrc.

Regards,
Gary


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Re: vi and vim

[Gary]

Dave Robison wrote:

> is there any way to use vi instead of vim in cygwin?

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/viper/Overview.html#Overview
*whistles innocently*

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