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Now I am reading a book on sed and awk and to learn the history needed to use ed and ex commands.

I thought for a vim user on Arch Linux, there is no need to install other packages but I found that ex is not included in the gvim, vim-runtime packages.

I guess the way vi and vim implements ex are a bit different, but how?

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    Arch Linux doesn't do an "alternatives" system like Debian, so if one package provides `ex`, another can't. Since [`ex` is provided by the `vi` package](https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/vi/), the `vim` packages can't provided it. You can always run `vim -e` to run Vim in ex-mode (or just make an alias of `vim -e`). – muru Feb 10 '23 at 03:12
  • Also see: https://vimhelp.org/vi_diff.txt.html?#vi-differences – muru Feb 10 '23 at 03:15
  • @muru Thx. Now it seems my question is off-topic :( – Taro Feb 10 '23 at 04:04

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