tl,dr: Did vi/vim change from /etc/alternatives to an alias?
$ ls -l $(which vi) $(which vim)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 1507859 Dec 12 09:07 /usr/bin/vi.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 3565587 Dec 12 09:07 /usr/bin/vim.exe
$ alias vi
alias vi='vim'
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 3:11 PM John Hein wrote:
>
> I just updated vim packages (including vim-minimal and vim-common) to
> 9.0.2155-1
I've got the same version installed
$ grep '^vi' cygcheck-srv_2023-12-17.txt
vim 9.0.2155-1 OK
vim-common 9.0.2155-1 OK
vim-minimal 9.0.2155-1 OK
> Now when I run 'vi', I get this:
>
> Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim:
> line 11:
<.. snip ..>
> and so on.
I can duplicate the problem by
cd /tmp
touch f1 f2
vi f1
:sh
vi f2
... and I get the same thing:
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim:
line 11:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let
did_load_filetypes = 1
line 14:
... etc.
Tracking down bash startup processing is not my thing, so I could be wrong but
/etc/profile has this bit:
for file in /etc/profile.d/*.$1; do
[ -e "${file}" ] && . "${file}"
done
and /etc/profile.d/vim.sh has this bit:
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$KSH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then
# for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set
alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim
fi
So I end up with
$ alias | grep ' vi'
alias vi='vim'
and vi works in the shell but gives all those errors in a sub shell - eg
vi /tmp/f1
-------- no error messages
bash
vi /tmp/f1
-------- lots of error messages
Regards,
Lee
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