[ubuntu-in] Erratic Vi on FeistyFawn

Gora Mohanty gora at sarai.net
Sun May 13 20:07:56 BST 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 00:20 +0530, mehul wrote:
[...]
> But, that doesn't explain why that problem is occuring in the first place.
> In fact, if it's the same application being called if you type vi or vim then
> the behaviour should be the same, but it's not, in his case.  
[...]

I believe what he is saying is that, in your case, vi and vim, are *not*
symlinks to the same application, as some other package (e.g., vile) has
replaced vi or vim. You can check for yourself by doing a
"ls -l `which vi`", and a "ls -l `which vim`", and following the
symlinks till you come to the actual application used. It is also
possible that the application looks at how it has been invoked, and
changes behaviour accordingly, though I have no idea if vim does that.

Regards,
Gora




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