Just a quick #security heads-up: in case you’re avoiding #vim and use #vi on some modern #Linux distro, make sure that vi does not actually point to vim. Arch Linux recently changed vi to be an alias to Vim in traditional mode. I assume it’s the same for other distros.
Stay safe y’all!
Artyom Boologov
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2026-05-15 13:02:36 UTC
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