Re: [arch-dev-public] Dropping vi and adding vim-minimal to the installation image

On 21/04/15 23:45, Jerome Leclanche wrote:

As long as the EDITOR variable is supported by those programs, maybe yes. But I don't think creating a symlink *anyway* and make vim provide vi is inappropriate.

Yes, the VISUAL/EDITOR environment variables should still be honored by these applications. It's only the default fallback editor that is going to change. I'm slightly against adding a vi symlink. That suggestion made sense so as not to break programs that use vi as their default editor. With nano as the default editor, there's no technical reason to do this anymore.