Once upon a time, Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> said:
> On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 07:38 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@fedoraproject.org> said:
> > > Could vim-minimal and vim-enhanced both install the same
> > > /etc/profile.d/vim.sh file that did something like this?
> > >
> > > if [ -n "${BASH_VERSION-}" -o -n "${KSH_VERSION-}" -o -n
> > > "${ZSH_VERSION-}" ]; then
> > > [ "`/usr/bin/id -u 2>/dev/null || echo 0`" -le 200 ] && return
> >
> > Why this? Why not alias vi=vim for root? We don't block root from
> > running vim (so it doesn't appear to be for security - vim already
> > ignores some things when running as root).
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=168010#c2
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=168010#c4
Umm, that's 15 years old, and not relevant anymore anyway ("if /usr
isn't mounted" hasn't been a supported thing in a while).
I've never seen anybody demanding POSIX compliance, especially at the
editor, and especially _only_ for root (which is actually confusing
behavior to me, that root and non-root get different editors when typing
"vi").
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Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net>
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