* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:24:33 +0200) > On Aug 19 15:17, David Rothenberger wrote: > > On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. > > > > > > This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the > > > first three patchsets. Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sources. > > > > After updating, /usr/bin/vi no longer exists. Is this intentional? > > No. If you look into the vim-7.3.003-1 tar archive, you'll see that > there's still a symlink called vi: > > bash$ tar tvjf vim-7.3.003-1.tar.bz2 usr/bin > drwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 0 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/ > lrwxrwxrwx corinna/vinschen 0 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/vi -> vim-nox.exe > -rwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 2084 2010-08-19 13:23 usr/bin/vimtutor > lrwxrwxrwx corinna/vinschen 0 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/ex -> vim-nox.exe > -rwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 13838 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/xxd.exe > -rwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 1548814 2010-08-19 13:23 usr/bin/vim-nox.exe > > I don't know why it disappeared for you.
Weird. On two installations (Windows XP and 2008 R2) "vi" and "ex" exist. On my main Windows 7 it's gone (not that I ever used "vi" for "vim"). I got a warning during setup that setup.exe could not unpack these files because they were "in use" (but they weren't) and after clicking on "retry" the installation continued. In setup.log.full I can see: unlink F:\cygwin\bin/vi unlink F:\cygwin\bin/ex [...] Installing file cygfile:///usr/bin/vi io_stream::mklink (cygfile:///usr/bin/vi->cygfile://vim-nox.exe) Installing file cygfile:///usr/bin/ex io_stream::mklink (cygfile:///usr/bin/ex->cygfile://vim-nox.exe) ...but that's excactly what I see on the two other installations, too. The only difference I can see is that the other installations are on a NTFS volume and this on is FAT32. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
