Traditional Ex - Vi editor Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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: almost 2 years 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

• OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems

  If you want to go ultimately minimalist http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ builds and runs on most modern systems just fine. Having learned vi across eight-ish different unices at once my muscle memory is very minimalist so I tend to use ex-vi preferentially, simply because everything else adds features I don't use that I can accidentally activate with a typo and break myself out of flow figuring out wtf just happened.... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• GitHub - VSCodium/vscodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  That leaves the “church” and the “cult”. (Or you can say that they’re both wrong…). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Yes, I couldn't quit Vim and that's why I hate it

  Which distro has vi installed by default? All the distros I've used had vim-tiny (or something similar), but never vi. In fact, the only distro I've used that has it (in the repos, not pre-installed) is I think Arch (the port from Sourceforge). None of the other major distros (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu) have it in their official repos. Source: almost 3 years ago

• The Unix EX Editor by Bill Joy (Basics)

  Bill's classic ex code was maintained (by Gunnar Ritter) into the 2000s. It's buggy but it still builds and runs if you're willing to work with some tty limitations: http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ - the README explains how to set a vt102-compatible terminal mode if you really want to run it. Source: almost 3 years ago