[ale] Gentoo.....where did vi go.....

[James Sumners]

the fact that emerging vim required all of X is one of the things i did not like
about Gentoo. it is absolutely _not_ necessary to build gvim. whomever setup
that package should be shot IMHO.

On 03 Feb 2003 09:04:01 -0700
Joe <jknapka at earthlink.net> wrote:

> msmith at mikeandmel.com writes:
> 
> > I was installing Gentoo this weekend and I got to the
> > point where I edit the /etc/fstab file and wham......
> > vi is no longer on my path.  I looked in the usual RH
> > places /bin , /sbin , /usr/bin , /usr/sbin ,
> > /usr/local/bin /opt/bin , and /usr/local/sbin.  Where
> > the heck is vi on Gentoo?
> 
> By default, it's nowhere; use "nano", which is utterly trivial to
> use. "nano /etc/fstab" should work. "^O" to save the file, IIRC.  And
> then "emerge vi[m|le]". Note that emerging "vim" will also suck down
> ALL OF XFree86, because of vim's X extensions.  "emerge vile" to get a
> nice, small, CLI vi.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka


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