[NBLUG/talk] VIM Question

[matt]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 11:32:19 Steve Johnson wrote:
> I use vim, and it seems that ubuntu feisty defaults to old school vi
> behavior, how can I force vi to always act like vim?  I tried "alias
> vi=vim" and it did not do the trick.  Is there a global settings file
> where I can set this?
>
> funny, on the 6.x versions of ubuntu, I could have sworn the vi
> defaulted to vim behavior, I wonder why they changed it.
>
> -Steve

Yeah, I hate that. Which is why I made /usr/bin/vi a symbolic link 
to /usr/bin/vim, and violà.

PS: If you notice, though, /usr/bin/vi* is a whole mess of symbolic links 
going to /etc/alternatives, and back to /usr/bin... I'm not sure what's going 
on. FYI, the actual binary is /usr/bin/vim.basic, so any form of linkage to 
that should work.

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Matt
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