On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 02:23:49PM -0500, Lee via Cygwin wrote: > If anyone has access to a redhat linux system, do they 'alias vi=vim' > or put vi under /etc/alternatives?
FYI: neither. $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine) $ cat /usr/bin/vi #!/usr/bin/sh # run vim if: # - 'vi' command is used and 'vim' binary is available # - 'vim' command is used # NOTE: Set up a local alias if you want vim -> vi functionality. We will not # do it globally, because it messes up with available startup options (see # ':help starting', 'vi' is not capable of '-d'). The introducing an environment # variable, which an user must set to get the feature, will do the same trick # as setting an alias (needs user input, does not work with sudo), so it is left # on user whether he decides to use an alias: # # alias vim=vi # # in bashrc file. if test -f /usr/bin/vim then exec /usr/bin/vim "$@" fi # run vi otherwise exec /usr/libexec/vi "$@" -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
