Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: > On 08/16/2012 04:55 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > > vi is generally a symlink to vim these days. > > Actually, it's a shell alias. And then, only if "vim" is installed, > which it isn't in some configurations. IIRC, desktop systems have him > by default, but server installations do not. It is neither a symlink nor a shell alias - execpt maybe for platforms that for some reason don't include vi. vi is OSS and the OSS vi is fully POSIX compliant. and BTW: vi does not read .vimrc but .exrc Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily