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Linux - Vim (Vi Improved) Response to Meaning of Life

Open vi improved:

$ vim

Then type ":help 42"

:help 42

This is a reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Works wherever vi improved (vim) is installed.

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Screenshot of vim after typing ':help 42' (VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4)	gvim 7.0.109 on Slackware Linux 11.0

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Andy writes:: I tried it and got: What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? *42* Douglas Adams, the only person who knew what this question really was about is now dead, unfortunately. So now you might wonder what the meaning of death is... Vim version: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled May 23 2006 12:03:57) Running on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS (doubt this actually makes a differance, its the vim version that counts ;)); 8 of 8 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

james2vegas writes:: Well, this should work wherever vim (as opposed to plain vi, which is standard on many systems still) is installed and aliased as vi (otherwise 'vim' should work wherever vim is installed). Since you can get vim on mac os x, solaris, various unixes, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd and windows, its really not appropriate to mark it a 'linux' egg.; 0 of 0 people found this comment helpful. Did you?

abaddon writes:: It also works with slax but not Fedora or FreeBSD?; 0 of 8 people found this comment helpful. Did you?