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JohnFen | 4 days ago

vi and emacs are absolutely not lightweight, let alone "absolutely lightweight".

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jmclnx|4 days ago

If by vi you mean vim, then I agree, real vi is rather lite.

As someone famous said, "everything is relative" :) Compared to the new applications that have been coming out, Emacs and vim are a paragon of lightness.

irishcoffee|4 days ago

I agree with you that vi is lighter than vim. I’ve seen more than a few instances of an OS just aliasing vi to vim.

On that note, why are the keybindings for vi on a “modern” Ubuntu different from fedoras? I remember having to mess with ^H in a vimrc or something to that effect to mimic the behavior I was expecting.

JohnFen|3 days ago

Vim is heavier, but vi is not at all "lite".