Re: vim

i am working with debian 6.0 with out any form of a GUI to learn system admin with an explicit aim in setting up a lan for web development. but as many voices scream, read the docs, as i do.

i have been through program language C and PHP. but when it comes to Linux in general, i just want to scream.

Thank you for the words.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:18:52AM -0800, james gray wrote:
> which vim
> /usr/bin/vim
> ls -l /usr/bin/vim
> lrwxrwxrwx -> etc/alternatives/vim
> ls -l etc/alternatives/vim
> lrwxrwxrwx -> /usr/bin/vim.basic

the name "/usr/bin/vim" is managed by the alternatives system (see
update-alternatives(8)) in order that the name can be used by more
than one Debian package, and so those packages can be co-installed.

So in my case:

$ update-alternatives --list vim
/usr/bin/vim.gnome

Slightly different results for the binary name 'vi':

$ update-alternatives --list vi
/usr/bin/elvisnox
/usr/bin/vim.gnome
/usr/bin/vim.tiny
$ readlink -f $(which vi)
/usr/bin/vim.gnome

> is there a for see able security issue coming from the programers view
> point , to have vim.basic with its file access as they are root root
> rwxr-xr-x.

No.

> can the end usr mutilate the file access and group of vim.basic and change
> to:
>
> root admin rwxrwx---

The end-user couldn't, except by elevating to root via sudo or similar.
Why would you want to do this?

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