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Install VIM by default.

Post by hvwees »

I was totally confused!
I installed gentoo on my x-box and hadn't vim :?

All my gentoo boxes has it by default, can you add this?

ThanX in advance!
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Post by vplayer »

Hi,

did you install gentoo or gentoox.

vim doesnt come with gentoox. Do a search on the forums for the previous discussions on that.
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gentoox of couse ;-)
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Post by nobspangle »

gentoo doesn't come with VIM either, you have to install it. The reason for this is that VI is a bloated waste of time.

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etcat -v vim
[ Results for search key           : vim ]
[ Candidate applications found : 5 ]

 Only printing found installed programs.

*  app-editors/vim :
        [   ] 6.3-r2 (0)
        [M~ ] 6.3-r4 (0)
        [M~ ] 7.0_alpha20050122 (0)
        [M~ ] 7.0_alpha20050126 (0)
        [M~ ] 7.0_alpha20050201 (0)

etcat -v vi
[ Results for search key           : vi ]
[ Candidate applications found : 3 ]

 Only printing found installed programs.

*  app-editors/vi :
        [   ] 3.7-r4 (0)
        [   ] 3.7-r5 (0)
        [M~ ] 3.7-r6 (0)
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Post by ShALLaX »

I wish people wouldnt duplicate threads. Scroll down about 10 lines and see that theres already a VI zealot's thread.... which was denied ;p
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Post by hvwees »

It was not my intention to make this a big threas but, when I installed Gentoo on my other boxes Vim WAS included.

The advantage of all *nix like os-es is that there is always VI or VIM, too bad gentoo doesn't fit this thought.

Some people will never learn the power of VIm.
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Post by Trogdor »

Though I am fond of Vim, it is not included by default on Gentoo boxes (at least, not officially). Nano is.
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Post by nobspangle »

hvwees wrote:It was not my intention to make this a big threas but, when I installed Gentoo on my other boxes Vim WAS included.

The advantage of all *nix like os-es is that there is always VI or VIM, too bad gentoo doesn't fit this thought.

Some people will never learn the power of VIm.
Most people don't need to learn the power of vim, they just want to edit text files

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Post by orochi »

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emerge sync && emerge vim
works for me running gentoox Pro 1.5
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