| 2007-06-06 17:11:35 |
Micah Cowan |
vim: statusexplanation |
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Thank you for your bug report. However, what you describe is not a bug. The vi installed by default (vim-tiny) is a full-featured, traditional vi; just not a full-featured "vim". All of the symptoms you have described are normal for a traditional vi, except for the claim that ex line commands (":q!") are not displayed, which I cannot reproduce (are you certain that your entire terminal emulator is visible on the screen?). Note that displaying the current mode ("-- INSERT --") is controlled by the 'showmode' option, which in a traditional vi is disabled by default.
vim-tiny is the default vi in Ubuntu because it is commonly expected for a Unix to have vi available, so a basic and traditional one has been provided. However, the full power (and space consumption) of vim-full was not appropriate for the basic install, since the default editor is nano, and users who prefer vim(-full) can simply install it.
Discussion as to whether this decision is appropriate is fine, but this is not the forum for such a discussion; use the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list instead (but note that, prior to taking this action, it was of course discussed).
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