[ale] about VI, was Re: Richard Stallman at the University of Georgia

[Paul Cartwright]

On 10/15/2014 03:41 PM, Ted W. wrote:
>>
>
> FWIW, I believe most modern distributions use alternatives to link vi
> to vim anyway. The following is from Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> elw at xbook:~$ which vi
> /usr/bin/vi
> elw at xbook:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct  3 13:49 /usr/bin/vi ->
> /etc/alternatives/vi
> elw at xbook:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct  6 13:44 /etc/alternatives/vi ->
> /usr/bin/vim.basic
fedora 21 has:
ls -l /bin/vi*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  923240 Oct 13 04:59 /bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       2 Oct 13 04:59 /bin/view -> vi
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2342920 Oct 13 04:59 /bin/vim

which vi
/bin/vi
]# which vim
/bin/vim

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Paul Cartwright
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