alternatives for /usr/bin/vim

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:43:05AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> None from my side. Just a question: I saw you removed the old work on
> vim7 and started a new one from scratch. What about the old work on no
> longer having conflicts between the various vim variants? Has it been
> lost?

Again on this topic: what do you think guys of using the alternatives
system to get rid of the conflicts among the various vim-* packages?
Each vim-flavour package can install /usr/bin/vim.flavour and an
alternative for /usr/bin/vim, perhaps with higher priorities for more
featureful packages (i.e. vim-full > vim-gtk > ... > vim).

We already have in debian alternatives for /usr/bin/vi which can point
to /usr/bin/vim (which in turn will point to ...), but I don't think
this would be a problem.

Comments?

PS I frankly do not remember what was the idea implemented in old vim 7
   snapshots to get rid of the conflicts, but I'm willing to implement
   the above one directly in the vim 6.4 repo if noone objects.

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