[Sussex] Ubuntu Vi

[Mike Pountney]

Hiya,

Not 100% on this, but it's likely that the vi that was installed was  
actually vim.

what does 'dpkg -l | grep vi' give you?


On 12 Dec 2008, at 22:23, John Patrick wrote:

> Evening,
>
> I've lost vi.
>
> I was trying to update ubuntu 8.04 to add vi as the default editor and
> in the process I have lost vi and replaced it wil vim.
>
> I was running:
>
> sudo update-alternatives editor ...
>
> But messed up the command line and seams to trash /usr/bin/vi
>
> I've tried apt-cache search vi but all can see if vim.
>
> Any hints or tips to try and get vi back?
>
> John
>
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