On 10/13/20 12:57 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 13/10/20 10:53 +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: >> On 10/12/20 9:34 PM, clime wrote: >>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 07:39, Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 10/10/20 2:37 PM, clime wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> could Fedora and CentOS containers for docker and podman come with >>>>> `alias vim=vi` in ~/.bashrc? >>>>> >>>>> I would very much welcome it as I am used to type vim everywhere but >>>>> if vi starts instead I am happy too. I know that the solution is to >>>>> create a customized container but often I want to try something on >>>>> vanilla containers from the whole range. >>>> IMHO it is not a good idea. Some users which don't have to know the >>>> problem can run 'vi' while thinking they run 'vim' and be surprised >>>> that >>>> most 'Vim' features don't work and they will file a bug tickets, which >>>> will be irrelevant, consuming reporter's&maintainer's time. >>> well, it would be good if vim itself display in which mode it runs. >>> So then >>> if I run "vim", I get "vi", i will know, ok, i got only the stripped >>> down version >>> because i am in a container and the "extension" is not yet installed. >> I'm not sure if this can be done within Vim as app, but I'm checking if >> I cannot do some bash magic to achieve this. >>> >>> I would very much appreciate it as a user (about 16 years) of the >>> great vim. >>> >>> Usually in a vanilla container, i just want to run an editor quickly >>> to look at a file or >>> quickly edit something - i don't really care about user experience >>> because if I did, >>> I would already customized the container. >> I understand your point of view, it is really annoying for people who >> know the problem, although as a maintainer I must be cautious about >> generic/default settings because it influences all users, not just >> container's users. > > And yet /etc/profile.d/vim.sh will happily stomp on my own shell > functions or self-installed 'vi' executables :-) > > This isn't a problem for me in practice, because I don't have any > functions or self-installed 'vi' commands. I just find it inconsistent > that the existing script doesn't use the same caution. To be honest, it was added by the previous maintainer, and if I'm not sure about what was behind the decision to make this way, I don't touch it till someone complains. But for the new stuff I tend to apply caution with my best effort. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Zdenek Dohnal Software Engineer Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
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