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Re: vi and cygwin
OK, you are correct, vim is vi! ...it's just spelled different I guess..
....
"Thorsten Kampe" <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote in message
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> * Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:25 +0100)
> > does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question!
>
> Read my answer: vim behaves like vi, it is called with "vi" in the
> shell and therefor it /is/ vi
(http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html).
>
> The original vi is not free software so you will hardly find it on any
> Linux machine (same with ksh for example).
>
> Thorsten
>
>
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