2013/10/14 Andrey Repin: >> The "vim" command is a different "vim" than the "vi" command. Both are >> "vim", but come from different vim packages. In Linux and other *nix >> systems, vi is symbolically linked to vim, but not in this case. > > It is _commonly_ linked to vim, but that really only because most of the > distros you've worked with have full version of vim installed by default. > Cygwin offers vim (full) and vim-minimal packages.
No! All distributions I have worked install a minimal version of vim by default as well. And I always manually upgrade to the full version. But all those distributions use alternative to solve the naming problem. Cygwin "vim" used to use alternatives as well and vi == vim. But when vim-minimal was introduced - and alternatives would be *really* useful - Yaakov decided to stop using alternatives for some reason, and now vi != vim. > If you intend to use full one, I suggest you remove vim-minimal and make a > familiar symlink for vi. vim-minimal is in Base. I think it will return every time you run setup. Regards, Frank -- 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
