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thetrivialstuff

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 191

update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

Looks like my latest update resulted in vi being installed -- maybe it was installed before as well, but /usr/bin/vi -> /usr/bin/vim ? It took me a while to find out why my .vimrc was suddenly being ignored (I'm one of those people that types 'vi' and expects vim ).

~Felix.

toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

alias vi=vim

Problem solved.

cretafan

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 2

Re: update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

I am new to Archlinux. Having vim called vi was the only (annoying) problem after installation. What's the rationale for this? All distributions I can boot make a vi symlink. I have my vim customizations on my home partition which is mounted in Arch as well. I needed

ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.virc
ln -s ~/.vim ~/.vi

to get my custom vim environment working. I need alias vim=vi and not the other way round.

Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 239

Re: update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

I am new to Archlinux. Having vim called vi was the only (annoying) problem after installation. What's the rationale for this? All distributions I can boot make a vi symlink. I have my vim customizations on my home partition which is mounted in Arch as well. I needed

ln -s ~/.vimrc ~/.virc
ln -s ~/.vim ~/.vi

to get my custom vim environment working. I need alias vim=vi and not the other way round.

If I understand you correctly you type vi and expect vim to start. aliasing vi to vim would solve this, because alias are evaluated before $PATH. You would type vi and vim would start which will read ~/.vimrc.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

http://archlinux.org/news/336/

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

cretafan

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 2

Re: update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

Thanks. Please drop a line about this in the Beginner's Guide. Getting preexisting .vimrc and .vim user customization working needs the aformentioned symlinks with the basic vi setup. And unsetting alias vi=vim. Btw I don't need power vim, it's all about beeping, color and syntax.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: update installed vi + vim; do not want vi

Thanks. Please drop a line about this in the Beginner's Guide. Getting preexisting .vimrc and .vim user customization working needs the aformentioned symlinks with the basic vi setup. And unsetting alias vi=vim. Btw I don't need power vim, it's all about beeping, color and syntax.

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