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Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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"vi" package in [testing]

What the hell is "vi"?
How it is different than vim?
Looking into package info it uses vim, not any other version of vi.
Why it is upgraded on my system together with vim and gvim?

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: "vi" package in [testing]

This has been announced on the mailing list. The vim package is being split:

Ola;

After some time we used post_install magic to make the vim binary more
capable and some people complaining about vim not having x features
while gvim is not installed I decided to separate all packages. This
means we have a new layout of the packages:

* vi - serves vi binary only, ex, vidiff and the whole runtime. No
   X-server capabilities, and it listens /etc/virc and ~/.virc only!
   This is the only package that comes with base. vim moves to editors

* vim - X capabilities(can drag splits in xterms, runs as server
   etc), Ruby,python and Perl-support. listens to
   /etc/vimrc ~/.vimrc

* gvim - like vim but with gtk2 interface and listens to
   /etc/gvimrc and ~/.gvimrc

The reason is that people complaint about missing X support in vim
sessions, and for some people the symlinks screwed
up.

    -T

BentB

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From: Birkerød, Denmark

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 22

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Re: "vi" package in [testing]

skymt, you are not answering Tobias' question:

"Vi is the classic screen-editing program for Unix. A number of enhanced versions exist, including nvi, vim, vile, and elvis. On Linux, the 'vi' command is usually a link to one of these commands." (quote from "Linux in a Nutshell", O'Reilly)

On Archlinux vi is a link to vim (Vi IMproved).

I too am annoyed by the resent change i vi/vim so that the X-server cut-and-paste doesn't work I do hope it will be sorted out quickly.

Mefju

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-07-12

Posts: 104

Re: "vi" package in [testing]

I too am annoyed by the resent change i vi/vim so that the X-server cut-and-paste doesn't work I do hope it will be sorted out quickly.

To solve this issue, you have to add this option to your .vimrc file

set mouse =

or in running vim

:set mouse =

BentB

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From: Birkerød, Denmark

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 22

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Re: "vi" package in [testing]

That did it. Thanks, Mefju.