[17526] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.25Mon: IS Linux Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Feb 10 16:49:58 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 10 Feb 2000 16:49:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:09:59 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hhffgloce.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > * "/bin/vi" is really vim in a halfhearted compatibility
> > mode.
>
> I suspect we're unlikely to change that; it falls under the category
> of "too much mucking with the base OS."
It might be that we should not install the vim package at all. It
really is confusingly different from vi. Three possibilities suggest
themselves:
1) Don't install vim; tell people who want vi to use the sipb locker.
2) Add nvi to the release for Linux only (like we do gcc for suns or
look on Irix)
3) Install an attach and run script pointing at the sipb locker
version.
> > * /etc/inputrc breaks vi-mode in any readline-using program,
> > including /bin/bash, /bin/athena/bash, and
> > /afs/sipb/project/bash/bash. It should (IMHO) be deleted
> > outright.
>
> Well, that's kind of annoying. Perhaps we can get a fix from Red Hat
> on this count, rather than adding a local hack.
I'm checking now to see if there is a RedHat bug fix or open bug
report for it; failing that I think this is a real bug that we could
reasonably patch ourselves.
Thomas
