Dockerfile for Traditional vi Editor

Overview

In most modern linux distributions, vi's feature set is supported through vim:

ls -l $(which vi)
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3 Jan  9 05:03 /usr/bin/vi -> vim

Well, we're actually running vim, even if we invoke vi.

Further, vim does provide a compatibility mode (-C) to ensure a backward compatibility, but that doesn't prevent us from accidentally using a non-vi feature.

For rare situations where we want to exclusively invoke the original vi editor, we can use it within a docker container through this docker image.

Pulling the vi Docker Image

Just the usual way:

docker pull tapankavasthi/vi

Running the Container having Traditional vi

docker run -it tapankavasthi/vi

Builds

For builds, visit the repository page on Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/tapankavasthi/vi