On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:36:14AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: | | On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:22:54 +1000, Craig Sanders writes: | >i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm in | >nvi rather than vim. yuk! | | I'm doing base-installs every time, and, quite often, find that I'm in | elvis (or -tiny, whatever). Which is ..unusable to me. | | Is this really intended, am I expecting random weirdness, or am I | hunting some obscure bug? Of course, this may be the wrong place to | ask that question, feel free to point me in the right direction ;-)
This is intentional. vim, for all of it's compactness, is really kinda large. Try running it on a 486sx with 8MB RAM -- it takes a little while for it to appear (kinda like emacs on a big machine). nvi and elvis-tiny are lighter weight vi clones so they are installed by default. I too much prefer vim, but I understand the reasoning behind the default. I just fix it as I install. -D
