From: matthew patton <pattonme@yahoo.com>
To: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>, Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
Cc: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: vim: errors launching "/usr/bin/vi
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:57:47 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13058478.2154617.1703098667904@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWsv6DiwdVA_ODiK5GYkQoDqfWEyxCOoJvCmmboNJwN_5hA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Would you please let me know how to make an /etc/alternatives for vi/vim?
did you install the alternatives package? I just use aliases (actually I set EDITOR=xxx) after I enumerate the editors I consider worthy of inclusion and resident. What DOES need nuking is the forced alias in /etc/profile.d. That's inexcusable interference in the system.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-20 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <da2e8ab5-f0ad-425f-a64d-fbda732fdf0c.ref@pacbell.net>
2023-12-20 2:47 ` Beau James
2023-12-20 5:04 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-12-20 14:00 ` marco atzeri
2023-12-20 18:34 ` Lee
2023-12-20 18:57 ` matthew patton [this message]
2023-12-20 19:23 ` Lee
2023-12-20 19:45 ` gs-cygwin.com
2023-12-20 20:10 ` Lee
2023-12-20 19:24 ` Ken Brown
2023-12-20 19:30 ` matthew patton
2023-12-20 19:44 ` Brian Inglis
2023-12-20 19:47 ` matthew patton
2023-12-21 3:01 ` Brian Inglis
2023-12-20 20:04 ` Lee
2023-12-20 19:55 ` Lee
2023-12-20 19:44 ` Lee
2023-12-20 19:54 ` matthew patton
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