Not all vi's are created equal

[Matthew Carpenter]

A. Khattri wrote:

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>>Yuck.  I do not like nano or pico or any other small-time
>>editors (that's a joke, no flames please)  But I'm thankful to be spoiled by
>>SuSE and Caldera.
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>You have the choice, of course, in Gentoo to install whatever editor you
>want - there are several different versions of vi for example.
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I didn't catch that.  VIM is what is installed, and VIM is what I'm used 
to.  I'm assuming the differences are not in the package but in the 
config that comes with them.  I have noticed differences between RH and 
SuSE along the same lines.  Gentoo just uses a config which is 
strikingly similar to the BSD systems I've admin'd. 

>>On Ubuntu, I selected it for install, but from the command line it thinks I'm
>>nuts.  Of *course* there's a command or filename "vi" or "vim";  I just
>>installed the dang thing!  But I can't find an executable for the life of me.
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>On a lot of Linux distros, there is one version of vi (it is vim really)
>but they usually setup a symbolic link or alias that runs vim even when
>you type "vi".
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That's just it!  I can't find an executable VIM to link to.  ;)
Perhaps it's a bad install and I should reinstall the VIM package.