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executesorder66
3340 days ago
Yes, but it is not installed as the default text editor. Unlike vi/vim/nano
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cosarara97
3340 days ago
The default is usually vi or nano, not full vim. So installing vim or neovim should take about the same effort.
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vopi
3340 days ago
In what distros? Ubuntu comes with vim.
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pcmonk
3340 days ago
Yeah, but it's vim.tiny. They don't even alias it to `vim` because it's not full vim.
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cryptarch
3340 days ago
Debian Stable (without a DE) only comes with nano AFAIK.
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gh02t
3340 days ago
It has vi in the base system, specifically `vim-tiny`. Vi is mandated by POSIX, so pretty much every distro includes some minimal version of it in the base system. `nvi` is also used sometimes instead.
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jimktrains2
3340 days ago
I'd bet good money both ed and vi are there as they are specified by POSIX iirc.
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