Re: Found out why vim/vundle didn't work

[Frank Fesevur <ffes at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

2013/10/14 Andrey Repin:
>> The "vim" command is a different "vim" than the "vi" command. Both are
>> "vim", but come from different vim packages. In Linux and other *nix
>> systems, vi is symbolically linked to vim, but not in this case.
>
> It is _commonly_ linked to vim, but that really only because most of the
> distros you've worked with have full version of vim installed by default.
> Cygwin offers vim (full) and vim-minimal packages.

No! All distributions I have worked install a minimal version of vim
by default as well. And I always manually upgrade to the full version.
But all those distributions use alternative to solve the naming
problem.

Cygwin "vim" used to use alternatives as well and vi == vim. But when
vim-minimal was introduced - and alternatives would be *really* useful
- Yaakov decided to stop using alternatives for some reason, and now
vi != vim.

> If you intend to use full one, I suggest you remove vim-minimal and make a
> familiar symlink for vi.

vim-minimal is in Base. I think it will return every time you run setup.

Regards,
Frank

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