On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:50:47AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > it would also be nice for vim to have a higher alternatives > > precedence than nvi. > > It does. I just tested. Nvi uses 30, vim 120.
good, that must have changed. > > i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm > > in nvi rather than vim. yuk! > > Are you sure you don't have an alias or script earlier in the path? Or > possibly you've got vim-tiny? Or you've picked up one of the i18nized > nvi packages (I'm not sure what priorities they've been assigned.) yep. it usually happened on a system that i'd just built, then i needed to edit a config file and ran "vi"...noticed that it's nvi rather than vim, so quit and "apt-get install vim vim-rt" while i'm thinking of it. then run vi again and remember "doh! gotta purge nvi too". now i just habitually purge nvi when i install vim. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
