As most of us Slackers know, Slackware ships with Elvis VIM as the default link to vi. I personally do not like Elvis VIM and for those who don’t as well, feel free to follow these steps to make vi more friendly.

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Next, because Patrick uses the example vimrc file for the system default, it sets some mouse settings. These settings require you to press Shift while copying and pasting text. To me this is very annoying.

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