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At some point hitherto, john abreau hath spake thusly:
> The "real" vi, from the original Berkeley sources, is
> currently named "nvi". 

Well, it depends on what you mean by "real vi" there...  Strictly
speaking, this isn't true.  Nvi is a new implementation of the
original vi that does not support a miniscule subset of features
of the original vi, and adds quite a few things that the "real vi" has
not (like GTK and Tcl support)...  It is based on the original BSD
sources, but is no longer maintained by UCB.  It's probably not even
the only clone that's based on the original BSD sources, so I suspect
it would be hard to argue that it's any more or less the "real vi"
than some others...

> Redhat also adds a "vi" alias to the global bashrc that points to
> vim, so I also delete that alias.

This is only the case if you install the vim-enhanced package, which I
don't believe is the case by default unless you chose "Install
Everything" at the package selection screen.  Also, this is new
behavior as of RH 7.2 -- earlier releases of RedHat don't do that.
It's actually done in /etc/profile.d/vim.sh, not in /etc/bashrc.  You
can delete that file or unalias vi, or simply don't install the
vim-enhanced package.  That'll leave you with vim-minimal, which does
not have most of the vim extensions compiled in (no syntax
highlighting, etc).  

There are of course numerous other vi clones out there...  If you
would like to risk getting dizzy from weighing your vi options, check
out this site:

  http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/

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