Default terminal does not include vi

[adambkaplan]

The out-of-box integrated terminal does not include vi, which is the default text editor for git on many Linux distros. This leads to context switching if a user needs to do an interactive rebase, amend a commit, or other git actions that launch the text editor.

[gasinvein]

Well, there is no ideal solution for missing tools/libraries in flatpak SDKs. Generally we have three options:

• Ask freedesktop-sdk team to add the missing tool if you believe it's useful in most cases
• Build an extension like com.visualstudio.code.tool.vim, it'll be plugged into sandbox environment
• Wrap vi from host, e.g. put somewhere on PATH a script that would call flatpak-spawn --host vi