The ship on POSIX mandating vi (and defining it's behavior) sailed years ago.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 4:11 PM Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 10:55, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > > > > I came here with peace. Let's face it. It's always between the two. I > > > respect vim and I learned quite some things in vim. But I'm an emacs > > > user and I find the original decision between vim and emacs for 'git > > > commit' unfair. > > > > Git doesn't use vim by default, it uses vi, and it's got nothing to do > with fairness. vi is specified by the POSIX standard, emacs is not. Using > vi as the default when EDITOR is not set is consistent with POSIX utilities > like crontab, using emacs is not. > > > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html > > > > But this isn't about your preference (emacs) or my preference (vim), or > what POSIX can portably assume is present. Fedora can assume nano is > present, because Fedora controls that and already makes it present. > > Thank you again for the reference. vi and vim are the same thing for > most people. > > I think it's best if POSIX stays away from taking sides on a deep > religious dilemma. > > Make it neutral (e.g. nano). Both sides get hurt the same amount. > > Best, > Orcan > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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