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Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

On 03/19/07 15:32, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have done a new install of etch, and discovered a situation
> that I find problematic. I don't know vi or vim well enough to
> recognize which I am actually running by observing the behavior
> of the running program, so some of my description of the situation
> should be discounted if known to be untrue. But there is a problem:
> 
> When I run 
> vi <file> 
> , I get different behavior than when I run
> vim <file>
> .
> 
[snip]
> 
> Your responses to this kvetching will help me decide whether to file a
> bug report, and against what package.

These 2 attached change log entries should help:



> 
> Thanks.
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subversion (1.2.3dfsg1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  As of version 1.2.3dfsg1-3, subversion is built to use Berkeley DB
  4.3 instead of 4.2.  Any BDB-format repositories must be upgraded
  likewise to use DB 4.3 before you can continue to use them.  Recent
  subversion releases default to creating FSFS-format repositories,
  which are not affected.  See /usr/share/doc/subversion/README.db4.3
  for more information.

 -- Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>  Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:23:03 -0500
vim (1:6.4-004+1) unstable; urgency=low

  * The vim-tiny package is back.

    It contains a compact version of the vim executable (no GUI, a small
    subset of Vim features) and does not depend on the Vim runtime (which, in
    the meantime, has been moved to a separate vim-runtime package). You can
    now have a 1 Mb installation of your favorite editor!

  * Vim variants no longer conflict.

    You can now install at the same time different variants of the Vim editor.
    The default one is configured via alternatives, with priorities increasing
    with the amount of features compiled in. Specific variants are available
    as /usr/bin/vim.variantname.

  * /usr/bin/gvim as gnome-text-editor.

    GNOME enabled vim variants (namely "vim-gnome" and "vim-full") provide
    again alternatives for /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor. Still, their priorities
    are smaller than gedit's (40 vs 50 and 45 vs 50 respectively), you have to
    manually choose gvim with update-alternatives if you want to use it as
    your default GNOME text editor.

 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>  Sat,  2 Dec 2005 10:03:08 +0100

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vim (1:7.0-017+6) unstable; urgency=low

  * "vim" vs "vi" revisited

    Invoking Vim as "vi" now only provides a vi-compatiable environment for
    the vim-tiny package (which is included in base).  The remaining variants
    will retain their normal behavior.

    Since this behavior was restricted to vim-tiny, /etc/vim/virc has been
    renamed /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny.  As was the case with the initial "vi"
    changes, the only setting in /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny is "set compatible".

 -- James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Jun 2006 20:00:02 -0400

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