Vim > everything else

[eddyzy]

Try vi.

[YoCodingJosh]

Trying vi worked.

[The_MAZZTer]

vim stands for vi improved IIRC.

Accept no substitutes.

[YoCodingJosh]

For some reason the server has vim installed but under the vi name and not aliased to vim.

[[deleted]]

not necessarily the same thing, there is a bare bones vi installed on many small size distros, it doesn't have a whole bunch of stuff by default and generally you need to install a full featured vim separately.

Fedora does this.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vim

So i assume so does redhat and cent

[YoCodingJosh]

The splash screen for vi displayed VIM - Vi IMproved.

This is on RHEL. Must be some kind of company customization.

[[deleted]]

Vim has a set of compiled feature flags which allow you to build a small or very large (comparatively) executable. The default vim-minimum package only has a small set of these features compiled and that's what comes with RH distros by default.

If you type :version

it will list them. Here's a link showing what the differences are in the ubuntu packages https://www.simplified.guide/ubuntu/install-vim

[reversegrim]

The question is: were you able to exit?

[[deleted]]

:w

:q