Re: vi vs ae

["CraigT" <craig.taylor@cw.com>]

somone else may be better to help with this.....but......I have a sym link
in /etc/alternatives

/etc/alternative/vi -> /usr/sbin/vim

so when i use 'vi' i get 'vim'

ae is ok.....v small.....but not vim

hope this helps
c^

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pietro Cagnoni" <pcagnoni@mclink.net>
To: "Tom Allison" <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: vi vs ae


> > I noticed that somewhere ae has started taking over as the default
> > editor in place of vi/vim.
> > I have tried placing EDITOR="vi" in the /etc/profile line but it
> > doesn't always work.
> >
> > CVS was defaulting to ae.
> > crontab will sometimes default to ae.
> >
> > How do I fix this?  ae is not at all what I am accustomed to and was
> > rather dismayed to find it so prevelant on all my systems overnight.
> >
> > Is there some history here I wasn't aware of?
>
> type as root:
>
> update-alternatives --config editor
>
> man update-alternatives will tell you a lot of the history.
>
> pietro.
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
listmaster@lists.debian.org
>