# [OmniOS-discuss] NEED FEEDBACK: VIM8 and "vi" behavior

David Ledger david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk
Wed Oct 19 21:14:11 UTC 2016

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    > On 18 Oct 2016, at 18:40, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
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    > VIM8 is in the omnios-build master branch for next-bloody and r151020.
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    > VIM8's defaults are more VIM-like and less classic-VI like.
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    > Would it kill people if I made "vi" act like "vim -C"?  Or would that be MORE surprising?
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    > Curious,
    > Dan

    As long as I can configure things so that I have a vi that works like that in Bsd 4.3 it’s ok. The thing I fall over most often is the simple ^U^U to scroll back to the last change. It’s muscle memory and loses me two changes on some versions.

    David - Unix since ‘83

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