Which version of VI (vi, nvi, nvi2, vim, nvim) are you using and why?

[yog.sothoth]

All is in the title...

 

[fernandel]

I am using vi which is in the base from when I start to use Unix like system. For me is enough.

 

[rbranco]

vim because it has syntax highlighting.

You're missing neovim.

 

[jdakhayman]

nvim is neovim

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Is yog.sothoth the same as Yog.Sothoth?

 

[kpedersen]

• vi(1) on POSIX platforms
• vim on Windows (due to lack of proper command-line job control)

I was hoping neovim was going to act as a sponge and prevent people bloating up proper vim but it has unfortunately accrued more sh*t since 2020 than all of the previous decades combined. Integrating an (unportable) terminal emulator in there was probably the catalyst.

 

[MG]

Any of them but only by force because there's nothing else and the file is too big to echo all the text to it.

 

[tembun]

vim, because it has a couple of really handy (to me) shortcuts/operations which pure vi lacks. These makes common editing operations really easy.

 

[CShell]

I use vi in whatever base system is installed.

Why? uh... not sure how to answer ... maybe it's more work to install a specific one?

 

[scottro]

Mostly vi. However, I use vim as my default editor in mutt. At one point, nvi (FreeBSD's vi) couldn't always do Japanese, and at the time I needed it more in email. And it became a habit. There's a couple of things I have set in my $HOME/.vimrc that I use much more in mutt than anything else.

Also, I do a daily online cryptoquote and vim has multiple undo, which I never learned to do in nvi. (Don't know if it's there). And going to the top of a file which I do with the cryptoquote) has become more of a habit in vim. I don't think it's necessarily the simplest move to top of file, for nvi shift+h works, but it's my habit. So, as mutt is one of my main terminal uses it's probably around 50/50.

 

[Alain De Vos]

neovim-qt.