M> For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains M> the default editor.
M> when I look in /etc/alternatives I see: M> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 30 23:12 editor -> M> /bin/ae M> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 30 23:12 editor.1.gz -> M> /usr/man/man1/ae.1.gz M> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 30 23:12 ex -> M> /usr/bin/vim M> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 30 23:12 ex.1.gz -> M> /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz M> Is there some debian specific setup script that maintains these links? M> I know I can just manually change them to point to vim, but I want to M> run the proper program that does it so I know for future reference. update-alternatives --config editor See man for info. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/) | | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | | AGAVA Software Company (http://www.agava.com/) | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-