Commit: README: mention POSIX vi as a goal of this project

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README: mention POSIX vi as a goal of this project

Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2bfd1ee161e26ece8e5a72cdca4fff22d11728a2
Author: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>
Date: Sun Jun 29 18:27:41 2025 +0200

README: mention POSIX vi as a goal of this project

Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfee68e8a..66a1e6cb8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ All commands are given with normal keyboard characters, so those who can type
with ten fingers can work very fast. Additionally, function keys can be
mapped to commands by the user, and the mouse can be used.

+Vim also aims to provide a (mostly) POSIX-compatible vi implementation, when
+compiled with a minimal feature set (typically called vim.tiny), which is used
+by many Linux distributions as the default vi editor.
+
Vim runs under MS-Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), macOS, Haiku, VMS and almost all
flavours of UNIX. Porting to other systems should not be very difficult.
Older versions of Vim run on MS-DOS, MS-Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista,
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index d90ebbc1f..80ec9e3c4 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ All commands are given with normal keyboard characters, so those who can type
with ten fingers can work very fast. Additionally, function keys can be
mapped to commands by the user, and the mouse can be used.

+Vim also aims to provide a (mostly) POSIX-compatible vi implementation, when
+compiled with a minimal feature set (typically called vim.tiny), which is used
+by many Linux distributions as the default vi editor.
+
Vim runs under MS-Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), macOS, Haiku, VMS and almost all
flavours of UNIX. Porting to other systems should not be very difficult.
Older versions of Vim run on MS-DOS, MS-Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista,
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