Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) writes: > One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for > vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, > I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing > if the FreebSD vi has been

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-23 Thread JFahnenmueller
The default vi is determined by the symlink /etc/alternatives/vi (e. g., on my system pointing to /bin/elvis-tiny). If you type vi, the system executes /usr/bin/vi. That is, however, a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi, which is... -see above. Regards, Joachim Fahnenmüller

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:01:35AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for > vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, > I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing > if the

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:01:35AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for > vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, > I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing > if the

Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-22 Thread Stan Brown
One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing if the FreebSD vi has been ported). In any case, how do I change the defaul