[ubuntu-in] Erratic Vi on FeistyFawn

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On Monday 14 May 2007 12:37 AM, Gora Mohanty cobbled together some
glyphs to say:
>> But, that doesn't explain why that problem is occuring in the first place.
>> In fact, if it's the same application being called if you type vi or vim then
>> the behaviour should be the same, but it's not, in his case.  
> 
> I believe what he is saying is that, in your case, vi and vim, are *not*
> symlinks to the same application, as some other package (e.g., vile) has
> replaced vi or vim. You can check for yourself by doing a
> "ls -l `which vi`", and a "ls -l `which vim`", and following the
> symlinks till you come to the actual application used. It is also
> possible that the application looks at how it has been invoked, and
> changes behaviour accordingly, though I have no idea if vim does that.

$ sudo update-alternatives --config vi
and
$ sudo update-alternatives --config vim

can also provide some useful information.

Regards,
BG

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