Vim?

1

I am a Web Developer in love with BeOS/Haiku, and I need vim. I tried: 

installoptionalpackage -a vim
and it didn’t work, saying: 
… no packages installed
bla, bla, bla. I tried for a couple hours, doing different things, nothing worked.
2

I just installed vim on r1a4 …

installoptionalpackage vim

What version of Haiku are you using?

3

I’m on Alpha 4, too, and was able to install it. However, I ran it as installoptionalpackage -a vim, although I’m not sure the “-a” was really necessary.

Dumb question: were you connected to the internet when you ran the command? It has to get the vim package from online.