Ex-vi is the traditional ex editor and it's vi interface.


Obviously ex-vi collides with vim, as both provide /usr/bin/vi
and similar files. You have to enforce the installation of ex-vi to
overwrite the conflicting files. Afterwards, `vim' calls vim, and `vi'
calls vi, just as it should be.


For decades, ed used to be the only editor in /bin, but it seems as if
todays administators increasingly lack the ability to work with ed. Thus,
for convenience, Crux's vim package installs vim-tiny as /bin/vi, too.
Although I'd love to force administators to work with ed, in cases /usr
isn't available, by refusing to provide /bin/vi, I rather install ex-vi
there instead of having vim remain in /bin.


markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>