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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!metro.atlanta.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.89.123.24!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.helsinki.fi!news From: aaro@iki.fi (Aaro Koskinen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.editors Subject: What is vi? (Re: Betting on Unix) Followup-To: comp.editors Date: 11 Mar 1997 00:51:40 +0200 Organization: L16 Lines: 15 Sender: akoskine@vesuri.Helsinki.FI Distribution: inet Message-ID: <pdxvi6z9x8j.fsf_-_@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> <330EF0FF.55CE@to.me.please> <5esial$eit@innocence.interface-business.de> <5esunl$9bv@web.nmti.com> <3313B49A.2B42@ibm.net> <331b5865.0@131.162.2.91> <857531709.6661.1@msn-9-16.binc.net> <331D71A4.556B@absyss.fr> <5fto1u$jde$2@peachy.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: vesuri-ether.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Graham Broadbridge's message of 9 Mar 1997 07:15:10 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163819 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2783 comp.editors:22236 Graham Broadbridge <grahamb@peachy.apana.org.au> wrote in comp.unix.bsd.misc: > In comp.os.linux.misc Douglas Seay <seay@absyss.fr> wrote: > : heaven is linux with vi and perl. > > Linux does not have 'vi' vi is a UNIX utility that is licensed. By this logic, Linux also doesn't have 'cat' or 'cp', right? vi is an utility which has been defined in the POSIX standard and any implementation which conforms to this standard can be referred as 'vi'. (Unlike Emacs, which has only one implementation). > The best that linuxers have is vim 'which is vi improved' or elvis (which > is symlinked to vi). Don't forget nvi...