On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:26:48 Markus Falb <markus.falb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20.8.2012 19:16, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > On 08/20/2012 04:07 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >> Gordon Messmer<yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Actually, it's a shell alias. And then, only if "vim" is installed,
> >>>> which it isn't in some configurations. IIRC, desktop systems have him
> >>>> by default, but server installations do not.
> >> It is neither a symlink nor a shell alias - execpt maybe for platforms that
> >> for some reason don't include vi.
> >
> > On a CentOS system, "vi" will be a shell alias when the "vim" package is
> > installed. Otherwise it will be a variant of "vim" which is more
> > compatible with the POSIX description of "vi" (though not 100%). As we
> > are discussing CentOS, I believe my statements did not require
> > correction. Thanks.
>
> I got curious ;-)
>
> vim-minimal installs /bin/vi
> vim-enhanced installs /usr/bin/vim and sets the alias (the "vim" package)
>
> [falb@xxx ~]$ which vi
> alias vi='vim'
> /usr/bin/vim
> [falb@xxx ~]$ which vim
> /usr/bin/vim
> [falb@xxx ~]$ whereis vi
> vi: /bin/vi /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/vi.1p.gz
>
> But the alias is not set for root!
FWIW, If you comment out the line "[ -n "$ID" -a "$ID" -le 200 ] && return" in
/etc/profile.d/vim.sh then the alias will be set at login.
Regards,
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