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Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?


On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:32:51PM -0400, Andy Civil wrote:
> Well, I managed to install vim, but I couldn't get it to emulate vi 
> successfully, I read all the help stuff, and tried "vi -v file", but it 
> was still showing the "~" signs in blue.

:set compatible

> that people write free software (I mean that) but I have to say that the 
> whole experience of vim, namely being forced to use an "improved" 
> version of a program and then spending ages trying to make it behave 
> like the old version, is one of the reasons that people flee from 
> Windows in the first place.

Yeah, and since vim is installed as the default vi replacement on most,
if not all Linux systems, that's exactly the kind of reason which let
people flee from Linux.  Sure.

Corinna

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