On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 23:32 -0500, Bob Metelsky wrote: > Greetings - When I first installed RH I had vi as the default editor . > I then installed other editors and somehow vim got symlinked to vi. > > I dont mind using vim over vi, I just would like to be able to change it > if needed. > > which vi > alias vi='vim' > /usr/bin/vim > > vi actually resides in /bin/vi and If I call with the full path vim > still gets called > > which vim > /usr/bin/vim > > I dont know where this alias is set. Ive tried to reset it in my > .profile alias vi='/bin/vi' > This still calls vim > > This seems to be set as a global alias or symlink. I want to define MY > editor! ;-) Use the alias command without arguments to show all currently defined aliases. Using full path to an executable is full path, a common way to avoid invoking an alias. So, what do you get when you do: ls -l /bin/vi On my system, that shows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 572392 Oct 19 15:37 /bin/vi Which is clearly a different file from: ls -l /usr/bin/vim -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1405896 Oct 19 15:37 /usr/bin/vim You might try this: rpm -qf /bin/vi rpm -qf /usr/bin/vim And see what you get. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
