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submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (5 children)

vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it'll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It's the lingua franca of text editors.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don't)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Really? Not that I'd notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn't be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it's 59KB)

Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)

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