vi verses Vim on HP-UX

[Donald P. Binnix]

As most everyone knows Linux uses Vim instead of vi which has more functionality and less file size limitations than regular old vi. Is it possible to upgrade the vi on HP-UX to Vim like is on the Linux machines and if so what do you need to do, I would assume it's either a patch or software update?

[Steven Schweda]

Vim is simply optional, free software, and
can be installed on an HP-UX system the same
as any other (where it works). You can
download a Vim source kit and build it
yourself, or find an appropriate binary kit
and install that.

http://www.vim.org/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-7.1/

and so on...

[Andy Kosela]

Why would you like to run vim? HP-UX vi which is directly descendant from the original BSD vi written by Bill Joy is more than enough to edit HP-UX conf files. FreeBSD also uses this more simple vi (nvi implementation written by Keith Bostic).

Vim is IMHO too bloated just for simple editing of ASCII files.

[Steven Schweda]

> Why would you like to run vim? [...]

Hey. Good one. For a moment, just for a
moment, I thought that this was a serious
question.