[arch-general] view command

[G. Schlisio]

Am 08.05.2012 19:24, schrieb Taylor Hedberg:
> 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.
thanks, thats what i alredy did before, i was just curious about why it 
is different by default. some things about arch use to be kind of 
sophisticated.
but sure, as guillaume mentiones, its vanilla behavior. thats quite an 
arch way to do it.