Gordon Messmer wrote on Tue, Oct 13, 2020:
On 10/13/20 5:38 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>Rather than script hackery, why not just make vim-minimal and
>vim-enhanced use the alternatives system? They are alternates for
>providing a "vi like" editor.
I think that's the best option, too. Dominique wrote some
suggestions for speeding up bash startup, in May (subject: Speed up
bash starting time) and I think that eliminating unnecessary
profile.d snippets benefits everyone.
Stephen replied in the "Introducing vim-default-editor subpackage -
replace nano as a default editor if wanted" thread just two days ago
that fedora isn't so much into alternatives except if absolutely
required -- search by Message-Id if you can:
CANnLRdgYRUAWLJCvvfFDqPuRCk_GVOy1ie07wKfdRCQM4wvAKw(a)mail.gmail.com
My post back in May (ugh! thanks for reminding me about something I
didn't follow through..) was mostly about snippets invoking slow
subcommands when not really required (e.g. completion in /etc at startup
time vs. /usr at first usage time) ; a profile script that doesn't fork
isn't going to change very much.
At least not enough that I'd want to stick my nose in that :D
Besides, Zdenek seems to care about not confusing the two, and
alternatives wouldn't allow something like the alias he suggested with a
prompt -- I think that's a good idea even if a bit obnoxious for people
who know-and-don't-care we can probably live with that.
--
Dominique