On Friday 20 June 2008 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 20 2008, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > > >On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:55:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm not sure if this would be useful to anyone else. On our embedded > >> product we don't have support for shell command aliases, and I'm in the > >> habit of typing 'vim' instead of 'vi'. This patch adds a configurable > >> option to allow busybox to respond to both 'vim' and 'vi'. > > > >Personally, I don't think that such a patch makes sense, fwiw. > > > >what about > >ln -s vi /bin/vim > >instead? > > > > You mean something like this, where vi is linked to busybox, and vim is > linked to vi? > > /bin > ls -l vi* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 20 11:21 vi -> busybox > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Jun 20 12:07 vim -> vi > > I tried this, and it appears that even though vim is linked to busybox > "through" vi, busybox still figures out that it's being called as vim, an > applet name it doesn't recognize. > > If you know of another way to accomplish this, please let me know.
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