[X2Go-User] Vim

Robert Dinse nanook at eskimo.com
Fri Nov 17 09:04:23 CET 2017


      I prefer ex / vi to be nvi rather than vim but easy enough to rm links
and re-create them.

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On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:03 +0100
> From: Ulrich Sibiller <uli42 at gmx.de>
> To: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> Cc: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>,
>     "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Vim
> 
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:
>> * On 11/17/2017 03:52 AM, Robert Dinse wrote:
>>>       I have EDITOR set to /bin/ex and VISUAL set to /bin/vi but apparently
>>> that is not sufficient in Centos6.
>>
>> No, because, like I said, both CentOS 6's and 7's sudo packages hard-depend upon
>> vim-minimal currently.
>
> Well, having vim on the hdd is not really hurting, it is ~1MB in size.
>
> nvi from EPEL does not conflict with vim-minimal:
>
> $ rpm -qlp ./x86_64/Packages/n/nvi-1.81.6-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
> /usr/bin/nex
> /usr/bin/nvi
> /usr/bin/nvi.recover
> /usr/bin/nview
> ...
>
> $ rpm -ql vim-minimal
> /bin/ex
> /bin/rvi
> /bin/rview
> /bin/vi
> /bin/view
> /etc/virc
>
>
> So where's the problem? Just install vim and ignore it (I don't like it myself).
>
> Uli
>


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