actually i did not try it but was is wrong with: alias vim=vi re, wh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > > --Matthew > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox > > > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
