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scottro
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 9:46 pm    Post subject: vim has no link to vi? Reply with quote

Installed vim today--usually, upon a fresh install, I install nvi as it doesn't look for X and saves me from the trouble of editing make.conf

So, now that X is up and running, I uninstalled nvi then installed vim. Found that typing vi gave me command not found. Did I screw something up when I uninstalled nvi? Seems to me that usually, on most distros the symlink is put in automatically upon install.

It was no big deal, just went into /usr/bin and did
ln -s vim vi

Just curious if this was my error or something that might be considered a bug?

Scott
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 15, 2002 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most people and other distributions just add
Code:
alias vi="vim"
to their .bash_profile, or /etc/profile for a global effect.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 15, 2002 4:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, that's right, now that I think about it--well, I could have done it that way, but the symlink works just as well. I wonder if it's worthwhile for that to be built into the ebuild?


Thanks much


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