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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:
>Tim <tim@futuresouth.com> writes:
>>   I think 99% of the people wouldn't notice if you just put vim in place
>> of vi.
>
>Wrong.  The different undo semantics would surprise (and piss off) a
>lot of people.

Indeed.  The two things that I notice most about vim vs vi are:

- Different undo semantics.  I can never remember vim's so I always revert
  to single-level undo when using vim.
- Different split-screen modes, both in how to split and how to navigate.
  I can usually manage to handle this one on the fly, usually by getting
  an error or two and then switching brain modes.

Having these semantics change when just upgrading the OS would be sure
to piss people off.  I was sure pissed when csh stopped paying attention
to the werase character by virtue of quietly becoming tcsh.

  Bill

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