Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 44050
vi alias to execute vim not being propagated to subshells
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:38 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac1 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010507 Description of problem: the /etc/profile.d/vim.sh script, installed by package vim-enhanced, tries to replace vi with vim by means of an alias. Aliases in login scripts have limited usability because they don't get propagated to subshells (including those spanwned by an X session!). As the bash man page suggests, assigns are deprecated and should be replaced with shell functions whenever possible. Here's my current workaround: vi() { /usr/bin/vim $@; } export -f vi I suggest using this method to replace _ALL_ aliases created in /etc/profile.d/. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install package vim-enhanced 2. log in as any user 3. spawn a new shell (type "sh") 4. type "vi": the plain vi is run instead of the enhanced version, because the alias is lost.
Fixed in 5.8-3 The reason we aren't doing this for things like colorls is that some users will want to use the system-wide profile files, but unalias colorls afterwards. It's not quite that easy for exported functions.