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Old 29th May 2008
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'Happen to be posting from an Opensolaris box (also have a BSD box and a Linux box) and using vim gets you vim. Typing vi gets you vim. Go figure. I'm told by a friend that Solaris 10 is the same.
in opensolaris they have added a lot of the gnu stuff and put it at the beginning of $path to tempt the linux crowd to cross over. Solaris has very few gnu utilities and they will never take the place of the standard utils (remember solaris is certified unix). vim (and xemacs) comes bundled with sun studio.
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