Hi,
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:50:47 AM UTC+2, Dmitry Frank wrote:
> Could anyone explain why does Vim still have vi-compatibility mode? Why would
> one use it?
>
>
> As a consequence, we have to keep set nocompatible in our .vimrc; there is
> much noise in docs like {not in Vi}, {Vi: no ++opt}, etc.
>
>
> and I can't really understand why developers keep it so carefully.
vi is part of the POSIX standard, IEEE Std 1003.1.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html
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