On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:54:51PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The other possibily for Debian as a whole would be to ban vi clones
> from offering /usr/bin/view, which I'm sure would annoy a lot more
> people.
Yeah, no, thanks.
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Philipp Kern
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Charles Plessy writes ("How many users for /usr/bin/view ?"):
> I will most probably remove /usr/bin/view from mime-support, but
> just in case, I would like to hear if some people are strongly
> relying on it.
I just read the bug. I'm not a vi user (I use emacs or ed)
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:54:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Perhaps this is just because I'm an old UNIX person, but I would expect
> the view command to launch vi in read-only mode. So I'm in favor of
> dropping linking it to see.
Oh good, I'm not the only one.
/etc/alternatives/view -> /usr/
Charles Plessy writes:
> Following a suggestion in http://bugs.debian.org/457898, the
> mime-support packages links /usr/bin/view to /usr/bin/see via the
> alternatives system, since the vim package also provides /usr/bin/view
> in such a way.
> These two ‘view’ commands do not provide the same
Dear all,
Following a suggestion in http://bugs.debian.org/457898, the mime-support
packages links /usr/bin/view to /usr/bin/see via the alternatives
system, since the vim package also provides /usr/bin/view in such a way.
These two ‘view’ commands do not provide the same functions, which trigger
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