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vi is perhaps the original UNIX editor and was developed during the 1970s by Bill Joy. It was originally proprietary but was open-sourced in the 2002. It is written in C and incredibly fast on startup. Funtoo, like most Linux distributions, does not use this original version of vi to provide the vi command. Instead this command, on Funtoo, is provided by BusyBox (which symlinks to /usr/bin/vi), while most other distributions use Vim to provide vi. On Funtoo vi should be pre-installed so one should not need to emerge it oneself.
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