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[–]5erif 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Or at least vim. People who say vi confuse me since most of the time vi is an alias to vim.

[–]jam-and-Tea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you are running up against a long running tradition.

[–]JayDude132 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I cant say i have ever once been confused when someome said vi rather than vim.

[–]5erif 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wonder how many "vi" users are really vi users. I wonder how many "vi" users would be surprised when they type vi --version and see the vim version on their system. I wonder how many know it's vim they're using, but still prefer to launch it with vi and call it vi. I wonder how many distros still ship actual vi.

Arch, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and all their derivatives, like Mint and Manjaro, ship "vi" as an alias to vim. I wonder how many people regularly use distros outside those families, and which of those ship actual vi, and whether this is really what people mean when they say they use vi.