Debian bug report logs - #1133
vim asks unnecessary and unclear question

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From: sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph)
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Subject: Re: Bug#1133: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question 

> Package: vim
> Version: 3.0-2
> 
> ] Would you make vim your default editor (y/n)? 
> 
> (a) vim shouldn't ask this question.  It should install itself if
> there isn't a vi already installed, and not if there is, just like the
> other vi clones.
> 
> (b) The question doesn't make it clear that it's only going to install
> itself as /usr/bin/vi.  At first I recoiled in horror, thinking it
> might edit /etc/profile to set EDITOR or something ...

vim now uses update-alternatives.

I close the bug.

	Sven
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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: vim asks unnecessary and unclear question

Package: vim
Version: 3.0-2

] Would you make vim your default editor (y/n)? 

(a) vim shouldn't ask this question.  It should install itself if
there isn't a vi already installed, and not if there is, just like the
other vi clones.

(b) The question doesn't make it clear that it's only going to install
itself as /usr/bin/vi.  At first I recoiled in horror, thinking it
might edit /etc/profile to set EDITOR or something ...

Ian.