On Jun 20 2008, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >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. > >#!/bin/sh >exec vi "$@" > There we go. That will certainly do what I was looking for. Thank you.
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