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• Vim, infamous for its steep learning curve, often leaves new users confused where to start. Today is the 10th anniversary of the infamous "How do I exit Vim" question, which made news when it first hit 1 million views.

  The traditional vi is still available. I have it on my Fedora system. Source: over 1 year ago

• Arch Linux turned 20 years old today. It was released on 11/March/2002

  Is the current version of Vi older than GNU Emacs? Pacman links to this page which states the software was made an 76 and adopted an open source license in 2002. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the tangible difference between Vi and Vim?

  I installed ex-vi on my computer, and it created vi as a symbolic link to the ex program that it installed. See man vi on your computer; you might find some more information about which vi you have. After having installed ex-vi, I see the following in man vi on my computer:. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the tangible difference between Vi and Vim?

  Unlike many GNU distributions, it looks the distribution you are using does not install vim-tiny as vi; instead it seems to have either Keith Bostic's implementation of vi, called nvi)[https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/vi/], or the real vi (at least, the closest to the real vi that Bill Joy wrote). Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the tangible difference between Vi and Vim?

  As NilsLandt said, you probably did not use vi on these machines, you can compile it for comparison, the source used for Arch Linux is here http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/. Source: about 2 years ago