On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 10:12:27AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Please consider installing alternatives for /usr/bin/vi, /usr/bin/vim, > /usr/bin/view, /usr/bin/vimdiff, and so on. > > (If nvim doesn't already support using "view" as an alias for "nvim -R", > and vimdiff as an alias for "vim -d", then don't install those > alternatives until it does.)
Upstream mentioned that they've decided not to support checking argv[0] for "view" and "vimdiff". However, the Debian package could install a shell script "nvimdiff" that just contains: #!/bin/sh exec nvim -d "$@" and then install that as an alternative for /usr/bin/vimdiff. Likewise with "nview" and nvim -R. That would help well-trained fingers and tools like "git mergetool". Thanks, Josh Triplett
