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On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:49:10 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On 16/11/2025 05:11, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> In article <10fasl6$3p4r1$3@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lawrence DÿOliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 15 Nov 2025 18:48:51 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I find it takes a lot of munging to get vim to *really* work like
>>>>> vi.
>>>>
>>>> To me, that sounds like someone saying “it takes a lot of munging
>>>> to get a Trabant to *really* work like a Morris Minor”. I can’t
>>>> imagine myself wanting to use either.
>>> 
>>> Well, squids & kids, but my fingers do vi automatically.  Anything
>>> else not so much.
>>
>> I find that depressing.
>>
>> I used to have to write reams of code in 'vi'. Horrible
> 
> I still do. (Though it is vim).

Back to my original statement that most people who say they use vi are 
using vim and would be very unhappy with vi.