vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim.

Posted Aug 31, 2005 7:35 UTC (Wed) by philips (guest, #937)
In reply to: vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim. by parimi
Parent article: Vim's newest features (Linux.com)

Please notice RH never had Vim in default instalatation.
Probably it is a sign.

Normally I end up recompiling vim since I use sometimes gvim and RH's gvim is just dumb [CENDORED] of [CENSORED], [CENSORED] and [CENSORED].
Most annoying features are text anti-aliasing and ridiculous GNOME integration, which kills bunch of standard vim shortcuts. I cannot imagine any sane person who can use that.

Recompilation helps. (Same goes for Solaris too.)

On SUSE and Debian, I found vim to be pretty okay - after few options tuned.

P.S. Most interesting thing, from another side of the fence, as I heard, hard-core Emacsers who use RH, normally insits on removing standard Emacs and using pacakges directly from GNU. Dunno why, but with all RH braindamages, I easily beleive that too.