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 Why is Vim no longer installed in 12.04 desktops and is there a better alternative?

 Usually, packages are removed from the default installation due to space constraint. CDs are limited ( and so does DVD ), and there is pressure to add more translations, to support more hardware ( especially with big binary blobs like the Nvidia driver ), etc.

So usually, packagers take a look at what can be safely removed ( ie, without removing important use case of a default distribution ). In the case of vim, there is already gedit and nano to fill the position and I would say that people who use vim are able to install it from the archive without much problem.

So That You All Have To Install Vim Through Command Mode.  Using Internet Connection.

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Difference between vi/vim?

vim is almost a proper superset of vi. So, everything that is in vi is available in vim. Vim adds onto those features. Here are a few of the extended vim features that I have come to rely on: Vim has been ported to a much wider range of OS's than vi. Vim includes support (syntax highlighting, code folding, etc) for several popular programming languages (C/C++, Python, Perl, shell, etc). Vim integrates with cscope. Vim can be used to edit files using network protocols like SSH and HTTP. Vim includes multilevel undo/redo. Vim allows the screen to be split for editing multiple files. Vim can edit files inside a compressed archive (gzip, zip, tar, etc). Vim includes a built in diff for comparing files (vimdiff). Vim includes support for plugins, and finer control over config and startup files. Vim can be scripted with vimscript, or with an external scripting language (e.g. python, perl, shell). There are many more differences. Here are a couple of good places to start finding out more. http://www.vim.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)