Bug 127462 - vi is too "featurefull"
Summary: vi is too "featurefull"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: vim
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-07-08 16:07 UTC by seph
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-07-21 14:06:37 UTC
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Description seph 2004-07-08 16:07:11 UTC
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Description of problem:
"vi" is an alias to vim. The vim with the shipped configuration is
very very different than vi. I frequently find that this very
inconvient, as I use vi to edit system configs. vim's autoindent and
linebreak are exactly wrong almost all of the time. Please fix this.

Some possible fixes include:

  shipping nvi as vi, instead of vim.

  making vi a shell script that invokes vim -C

  changing the vim defaults not to set nocompatable or ai

  shipping vim-minimal, and not aliasing vi to vim.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vim-enhanced-6.2.98-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
run vi

Additional info:

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2004-07-21 14:06:37 UTC
closing as 'wontfix'. If someone installs vim-enhanced, we can 
safely assume that the full featured version is what the user wants. 
There are a few workarounds for you:   
- put an unalias vi in your .bashrc/.profile 
- remove /etc/profile.d/vim.* for systemwide changes 
- run '/bin/vi' if you want to run the minimal version, 'vi' if you  
  want the full version. 


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