why NOT vim

Forum: Apps
Topic: why NOT vim
started by: mutato

Posted by mutato on Mar. 09 2005,01:07

Sorry for my question, but why DSL don't include vim like term editor? I don't talk about gVim, but vim small and powerfull text editor.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 09 2005,01:57

DSL does have vim. For some reason it's started with the 'vi' command, but it's vim.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 09 2005,04:44

Hmm..

For the next version of DSL, maybe somebody should add a tiny symlink in /usr/bin that points "vim" over to the vim program executable.

Just a thought.

Posted by mutato on Mar. 09 2005,12:17

Quote (mikshaw @ Mar. 08 2005,20:57)

DSL does have vim. For some reason it's started with the 'vi' command, but it's vim.

Sorry. I had wrong.

Posted by tronik on Mar. 11 2005,19:31

I disagree ;p it should just stay 'vi' ;\ ! vim = blehhhh ;p at least with the name being 'vi' im not reminded so often than im using vim ;p

*long live nvi!* (nvi is a bug-for-bug compatible replacement for the original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) ex and vi programs.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 11 2005,20:45

Dunno how serious you were being, but it doesn't make sense to me to rename an application to the name of another existing application (perhaps we should also remove the '/bin/sh' symlink and rename 'bash' to 'sh'?) .

Using a symlink instead of renaming allows those who want to use vim as vim to do so, and those who want to pretend they are using vi can do that as well. Not that it really makes a difference to me, since i've already got a vim symlink in my backups =o)