Re: vi in Debian (slink)

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 03-Apr-99 thomas lakofski wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not
>> really
>> vim.  Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems?
>> 
>> vim works well, but vi is weird.  It acts buggy. 
> 
> /usr/bin/vi is linked to /etc/alternatives/vi; take a look at what
> /etc/alternatives/vi is linked to, and change it if you want to.
> 

I looked there and it is linked to something called 'nvi' which I have never
even heard of.  I will change it to vim.

thanks

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Andrew

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