From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5 Description of problem: "vi -x" no longer works (says "unknown option") Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-minimal-6.3.071-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./bin/vi -x foo 2. 3. Actual Results: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3 (2004 June 7, compiled Apr 27 2005 02:24:01) Unknown option: "-x" More info with: "vim -h" Additional info: works ok using vim, just not as vi
be sure to give full path to vi (i.e. /bin/vi) or "unalias vi" first as it is aliased to vim usually.
I'm quite sure that the minimal version never supported the -x parameter, it's really 'minimal'. Here's the output of an old version: $ /bin/vi -x foo VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Sep 16 2003 11:01:21) Unknown option: "-x" More info with: "vim -h" $ rpm -q vim-minimal vim-minimal-6.2.98-1 The only change that might cause different behaviour is that newer vim versions don't set the alias vi=vim anymore for uids < 100.