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#223 WSL-Rawhide does not include vim
Opened by osalbahr. Modified

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Hi,

I noticed after installing Fedora-WSL-Base-Rawhide-20251001.n.0.x86_64.wsl that vim is not preinstalled. According to the wiki[1], it should be.

Is this expected?

$ vim .ssh/config
-bash: vim: command not found

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cloud/wsl

The default editor in Fedora is nano [1] so I would expect that to be the only one by default, it's easy enough to install all the things you need using dnf.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault

Fair enough

Metadata Update from @osalbahr:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Well, @osalbahr is correct that the doc page says "The Fedora WSL image is similar to the cloud and container images, but some developer-focused packages such as manual pages, wget, and vim have been preinstalled."

So either we should put vim (back?) in it, or change what that says.

Metadata Update from @adamwill:
- Issue status updated to: Open (was: Closed)

But... we didn't drop vim. It's still there as vim-minimal. We never changed the definition.

Maybe the doc should say vi or vim-minimal or something else clearer, then. If you say vim, it seems reasonable that people will type vim and be surprised when it doesn't work...

I mean, I'm surprised it doesn't work too. I certainly don't expect vim-minimal to not provide /usr/bin/vim.
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