vim: Why isn't vi doing those advanced vim functions?

Computer Tips - vim: Why isn't vi doing those advanced vim functions?

Date: 2007oct29 Update: 2012dec8 OS: Linux Distro: RedHat/Fedora/CentOS Keywords: vi, vim Q. vim: Why isn't vi doing those advanced vim functions? A. Seems that vi is from the vim-minimal package. It doesn't do the fancy stuff. I suggest removing this package:

rpm -e --nodeps vim-minimal

I suggest adding an alias in your ~/.bashrc so typing vi always gets you vim:

alias vi='vim'