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[The Thought Assassin]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Debian 2.2's default installation, runs VIM in 'Vi compatible mode' which
> doesnt show you at all what mode you're in, im guessing this is just for
> compatibility reasons (but WHY?!). Type ":set nocp" and you're into vim's
> slightly more friendlier mode. :) Yes it even shows the cursor position
> too!
Hmmm. In older Debian at least, one always installed the "vim-rt" package
when installing vim, for a hundred little usability reasons. I don't know
whether this still applies.

> Vim has it's uses, its definitely bandwidth friendlier than most
Network and memory bandwidth alike. :)

-Greg Mildenhall