Marziani
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: question about /bin utils
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there is no
/bin/vi at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a distro without a
/bin/vi; how do I edit my files when my
On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
Just like another responder, Andrew, I did a default basic install, and
there was no /bin/vi. It was in /usr/local/bin. THEN I replaced it
with vim.
Um, debian's policy specifically disallows putting anything in /usr/local other
than empty
Marziani
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: question about /bin utils
On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
Just like another responder, Andrew, I did a default basic install,
and there was no /bin/vi. It was in /usr/local/bin. THEN I replaced
it with vim.
Um, debian's policy
On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
Woah my bad.. not /usr/local/bin.. /usr/bin. And yes I do have ae and
ed in my /bin. I'd like to think that they could have given me vi too
though :)
so here is the deal. No one could win the editor wars so Debian decided to
choose a neutral party
While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there is no /bin/vi
at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a distro without a /bin/vi;
how do I edit my files when my /usr partition crashes?
Just curious if anyone has some insight into this. I would rather think
that I made a mistake
Michael == Michael Marziani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there
Michael is no /bin/vi at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a
Michael distro without a /bin/vi; how do I edit my files when my
Michael /usr partition crashes?
ed!
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there is no /bin/vi
at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a distro without a /bin/vi;
how do I edit my files when my /usr partition crashes?
Just curious if anyone has some insight into this. I
True enough, in (my) potato there's no /bin/vi, although there are other
editors (ae and ed). In (my) woody there is, though:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /bin/vi
/bin/vi
(Not that I'd have the beginnings of a clue how to actually use ae or ed
if I were in that situation)
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