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davidw
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Because when you learn elisp, it runs circles around vim.
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admnor
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Yay, the original Holy War!
(vi, for the record)
masukomi
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I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.
markeganfuller
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vi is still included in the arch linux base system
omaranto
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That's probably not true, in that among the myriad distros there's probably one in which vi is nvi.
crashandburn4
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true, but that's why we have evil mode[1], so we can have our elisp cake and eat our delicous sugary vim bindings too.
[1]
https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home
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