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Is there any difference between the packages core/vi and extra/vim in the repositories? They both have the exact same description and version number.
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This should cover it: http://www.vim.org/viusers.php
It is essentially vi with more features.
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I know about vi versus vim, I'm not sure about the packages in Arch's repos. I was looking at the descriptions in archlinux.org/packages and saw that core/vi and extra/vim had the exact same description. But doing a pacman -Si on both packeges showed they do have different descriptions:
Description : a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text editor
versus
Description : a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text editor
(basic version)
Also, when I run vi the editor "splash screen" says it's VIM. Is core/vi actually vi and not vim?
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Sure. They are actually both vim. core/vi is just the simple version without all the gui goodness. They got split into separate packages a while back: http://www.archlinux.org/news/336/
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Ah, OK. I was confused because vi (er, simple vim) wasn't sourcing my ~/.vimrc . So extra/vim's only extra features are X-related, then, right?
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vim also has rupy, python and perl support according to the news item about the split. Not exactly sure what that means though....
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Me neither. I just want standard, basic VIM.
That news item also answered the root of my question, why ~/.vimrc wasn't being sourced. It needs to be moved to ~/.virc (or even ~/.exrc).
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