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

Lightner, Jeff JLightner at dsservices.com
Thu Oct 16 09:50:52 EDT 2014


Similar for CentOS/RHEL.

Note the vi you see is from the "vim-minimal" package if it is same as CentOS/RHEL.

Other interesting vim tools seen on CentOS/RHEL:
/usr/bin/vimdiff -> vim
/usr/bin/gvimdiff -> gvim
/usr/bin/vimx -> gvim






-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:56 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] about VI, was Re: Richard Stallman at the University of Georgia

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
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

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