[arch-general] view command

hi all, 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? thanks georg

Re: [arch-general] view command

Hey. I don't have that behavior here but i guess if you set the environment EDITOR variable to vim it should work. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: hi all, i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used to with several other distros

Re: [arch-general] view command

On 8 May 2012 18:27, Tiago Sousa tsous...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I don't have that behavior here but i guess if you set the environment EDITOR variable to vim it should work. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: hi all, i stumbled over view being a link to

Re: [arch-general] view command

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