"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a few > days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a lot) foggy > on what exactly it's used for. For instance, I have > /etc/alternatives/vi and /etc/alternatives/editor ... what applications > will use these values?
nvi, vim, and elvis (all vi clones) will register alternatives for vi; these, plus emacs, xemacs, nano, etc. will be alternatives for editor. > To make it even more confusing, I see the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/vi > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 30 2002 /usr/bin/vi -> > /etc/alternatives/vi* {65} dmaze% ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 8 08:30 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim* '/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display vi' can also be informative for seeing what's going on. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]