Re: VIM features
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:20:58AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@andago.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:52:10AM +0100, Hans Freitag wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:09:10PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > >
> > > > How about turning off all non-standard-vi features by default
> > > > such as "autoindent" and the especially annoying "filetype plugin on"
> > > > and surrounding all vim-features with
> > > >
> > > > if v:progname != "vi"
> > > > s00perd00per vim/gvim options
> > > > endif
> > >
> > > Bad idea, i don't like typing m after vi to get the editor.
> > >
> >
> > Then you just need
> >
> > alias vi=vim
> >
> > I guess, since the shell replaces vi by vim before passing it to the
> > interpreter.
> >
> But this is what alternatives are supposed to do.
>
No, it's something else.
When you use aliases, they act as the level of the keyboard buffer, which means if you type 'vi' the string 'vim' will be passed to the interpreter.
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