Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:45:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > 'vi' is not in this list, so I can't say what vim.tiny should do when > > it is invoked via the update-alternatives symlink, vi, but I think it > > is not doing something that its maintainers intend. Is this a bug

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Paul E Condon wrote: > 'vi' is not in this list, so I can't say what vim.tiny should do when > it is invoked via the update-alternatives symlink, vi, but I think it > is not doing something that its maintainers intend. Is this a bug? Or > is it working in some mode that is useful, but only to those

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives [solved]

2007-03-19 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Monday 19 March 2007 22:22, Paul E Condon wrote: > Now, I think I have never actually used vi. Instead, I have always been > using versions of vim that were loaded when I typed 'vi'. My ignorance is > revealed, but I learn, slowly. The closest free piece of software you can get is, AFAIK, nvi (

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives [solved]

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:02:09PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > When I was using Sarge, and early upgrades to Etch, I had avoided > > using vim because I never felt I had the time to learn about its > > 'improved features'. Now, when I run vi, it behaves in a

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Paul E Condon wrote: > When I was using Sarge, and early upgrades to Etch, I had avoided > using vim because I never felt I had the time to learn about its > 'improved features'. Now, when I run vi, it behaves in a strange > way that I dislike, and I can get back to what I thought was vi > behavi

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/19/07 15:32, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have done a new install of etch, and discovered a situation > that I find problematic. I don't know vi or vim well enough to > recognize which I am actually running by observing the behavior > of the running program, so some of my description of the situa

vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
I have done a new install of etch, and discovered a situation that I find problematic. I don't know vi or vim well enough to recognize which I am actually running by observing the behavior of the running program, so some of my description of the situation should be discounted if known to be untrue.