vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim.
vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim.
Posted Aug 31, 2005 7:23 UTC (Wed) by Nickus (guest, #32179)In reply to: vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim. by arcticwolf
Parent article: Vim's newest features (Linux.com)
One of the reasons why you may not touch the GNU utils is that they have a lot of extensions that simply won't work on other platforms native tools. For people living in a Linux only world it may not be a problem but the rest of us needs to take the rest of the world into account.
Posted Aug 31, 2005 17:51 UTC (Wed)
by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256)
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So, if you need the enhancements from GNU in your work and scripts
(I routinely install the GNU tools suite on Solaris boxen when
JimD
You can use the GNU tools on virtually any version of UNIX.GNU is not Linux (only)
They are not exclusive to Linux.
on $PROPRIETARY_UNIX then simply install the GNU suite on it.
I need to maintain them).