From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 14:13:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lloydix.2y.net (wks-166-135-66.kscable.com [24.166.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D6C37B415 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lloydix.2y.net (xidnalg [192.168.0.2]) by lloydix.2y.net (8.11.5/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8DLCj858584 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:12:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glandix@lloydix.2y.net) Message-ID: <3BA12179.C0B24F07@lloydix.2y.net> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:13:29 -0500 From: gLaNDix X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi question, please help... References: <200109131318.f8DDIGP38150@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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... -- ------------------------- Jesse (gLaNDix) Kaufman glandix@lloydix.2y.net http://lloydix.2y.net ------------------------- <<< FreeBSD lloydix.2y.net FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #1: Tue Aug 14 02:48:31 CDT 2001 glandix@lloydix.2y.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LLOYDIX i386 >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message