vi the text editor You might be looking for ./vim You don't grok vi https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118 #symlink /usr/bin/vi hijacking Some packages of editors in the vi family insist in symlinking /usr/bin/vi to their editor. Whichever started doing it probably thought it was Just Fine, but there are many of them now and their symlinks overwrite each other. So let's say you install both vim and vis (assuming Ubuntu software repositories for the sake of argument). Which one does 'vi' point to? Whichever you installed last. Distributions: keep your hands off vi https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/HandsOffVi #overvim Where vi>>vim Vim still sucks http://www.galexander.org/vim_sucks.html vi is not vim https://web.archive.org/web/20180505044345/http://www.hugodaniel.pt/posts/2017-08-12-vi-is-not-vim.html