[arch-general] view command

Taylor Hedberg tmhedberg at gmail.com
Tue May 8 13:24:10 EDT 2012


G. Schlisio, Tue 2012-05-08 @ 17:31:49+0200:
> i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used
> to with several other distros (opensuse, debian). is there any
> particular reason for that behaviour?

FYI, you can use `vim -R` to explicity invoke Vim in read-only mode. Or
even `alias view=vim -R` in your shell to override the symlink to
/usr/bin/ex.
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