> limitations of the old vi?
I know several distributions install vim-tiny (or its minimal
counterpart) as a way to pack as much power as possible in as
little disk space as possible. Consider dedicated routers and
old machines where disk & RAM are actually tight resources. The
assumption is that, if you want to get such a system up and
running, and need to edit config files in-situ, you don't want to
give up the standard. If you have a beefier machine, you can at
least get your system up and running with the minimal version and
then install vim-kitchen-sink for actual editing.
And lest you think I'm joking, I've done some Debian installs on
machines with 32MB of RAM (I think...it might have been less)
where vim-tiny was usable and using vim-full made me groan. It
was still usable, but it would occasionally trigger swapping if I
didn't take precautions to launch it without certain features.
-tim
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