From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 15:10:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D0737B40F for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15heh0-0000FQ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:10:43 +0000 Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 78CDBB673; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:08:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:08:01 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi question, please help... Message-ID: <20010914000801.A8894@raggedclown.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200109131318.f8DDIGP38150@fac13.ds.psu.edu> <3BA12179.C0B24F07@lloydix.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <3BA12179.C0B24F07@lloydix.2y.net>; from glandix@lloydix.2y.net on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:13:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:13:29PM -0500, gLaNDix wrote: > > > dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > > vim does not replace vi; they coexist. To use vim you must specify > > vim, or make an alias. > > what I prefer to do is install vim normally (via ports or package) then > rename the original "vi" binary to "vi.orig"... then, creating a link to > vim in the dir that "vi.org" now exists... that way, if something that > Vim is dependant on gets dorked up, you still have vi.orig! > > just my preference... > Wouldn;t it be easier to just alias vi to vim ? -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message