Brian Gupta writes: > You'd have to verify that .exrc is 100% compatible. I am not sure you would > go about doing that, other than a man page verification, which might not be > 100% accurate. (Otherwise I am all for this).
I'm not sure that it'd have to be 100% compatible, but you would have to deal with the fact that vi+ex are part of POSIX, and would have to pass all the tests. > Besides, there isn't a name > conflict between vi and vim. (You aren't replacing tar with gtar for > example. Mozilla as a Netscape replacement was fine, as Netscape development > had ceased.) I'm not sure if tar/gtar is really a good example. Except for the letters in the name, they're not compatible with each other. GNU tar is fairly far from standards compliance. But you're right that it's much safer ground if you avoid the problem by sticking with 'vim' anyway. (Isn't the reason that it's available as 'vi' on other platforms really the fact that those platforms don't have a standards-conforming implementation of 'vi', rather than a need to assert that vim is the same?) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
