Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53301
Return "vi" to same behavior that many years of RHL had
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:51:25 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: After many many years of having "vi" invoke "vim" on Red Hat Linux, the behavior changed. Now you must install "vim-enhanced" (which isn't installed by default), and then seperately run "vim" instead of "vi". This change in behavior is bad. Retraining fingers to type "vim", plus adding vim-enhanced to all the RH7 boxes I come across is tedious. I've heard the same complaint from many people in my sysadmin circles. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install current Red Hat 2. 3. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: see above Additional info: see above
Bero, I think a good solution to this problem would be to remove vi/vim from the distro entirely, and we could just add symlinks in the xemacs package that point from vi/vim, etc. Sound ok? ;o)
mharris: Um no, we should just add Obsoletes: emacs xemacs to the vim-enhanced package to save valuable diskspace. ;) dax: I tend to agree that this should be fixed
I've added a vi->vim link to the vim-enhanced package in 6.0-0.av.1 - vim-enhanced still needs to get into the comps file.