[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 9 15:16:00 GMT 2013


On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Frank Fesevur wrote:
>2013/12/9 Corinna Vinschen:
>> The new vim layout closely reflects the Fedora packaging.  It has a
>> minimal vi in the vim-minimal package and a full-featured vim in the
>> vim-enhanced package.  I'm using a vi -> vim alias on Fedora for ages.
>
>That explains why Yaakov did this. I assume Yaakov is a Fedora user.
>
>As a long time vi user (>25 years) and a Debian-based Linux user
>(Debian uses alternatives) I am used to type "vi", so I added the
>alias. But on our new server my colleague had to add the alias the
>other way around because there we have only vim-minimal installed and
>he is used to type "vim". So we always need an alias ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_in_a_teapot

cgf

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