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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:17:09 -0700
From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spocom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: vi and vim
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On 2010-08-11, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/11/2010 12:22 PM, Dave Robison wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to
> >use vi instead of vim in cygwin?
> >
> >I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't
> >linked to one iteration or another of vim.
> >
> >If not, c'est la vie.
> 
> Cygwin provides the vim package, which creates a link to 'vim-nox.exe'
> called 'vi'.  Unless you set 'nocompatible' in your ~/.vimrc, you will get
> a vi-compatible version of vim.

Actually, just the presence of ~/.vimrc will set 'nocompatible'.
See

    :help compatible-default

If you want a vi-compatible vim, name your rc file .exrc and not
.vimrc.

Regards,
Gary


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