• Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    You are actually correct. I just checked the manifest of RHEL and it provides vim-minimal and not vi like I assumed.

    I noticed that it behaves a bit different than the version available on AIX for example which for sure uses real vi, but I never gave it a second thought. Interesting.

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      10 months ago

      Also OpenBSD use different versions, I’m guessing their vi is the original since it can’t handle utf-8. And iirc ex(1) is also a vim variant on Linux. I’ve never met anyone who actually uses ex though. ed(1) I think is just GNU ed. I am not certain about these versions though.