On 30/03/15 08:29, Allan McRae wrote:
On 30/03/15 01:15, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
This was discussed about two years ago but no action was taken.
The proposal is simple:
- Drop the vi package from the repos - Add vim-minimal to the installation image
This seems like a good idea because the vi editor we ship is about 10 years old and it has never behaved correctly for me.
It was brought up that some applications hardcode vi as their fallback editor, but I think it should be up to the user to configure proper EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables. During installation, none of these programs needs to launch an editor (perhaps with the exception of visudo which I can configure to search for vim). [1]
Or... just add a symlink from vim to vi?
What happened to adding a symlink? Now there is no "vi" in base, many packages there are broken out of the box - sudo (visudo), bash (bashbug), less (when pressing v). There is bound to be more... Or are we having all those packages depend on vim? I never had vi installed on my system and had to make the symlink to vim because there was so many things that wanted it. A