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Re: vi and vim


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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