Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 21:05:05 +0000
From: David Restall <dave@restall.net>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Is there a preferred way to change busybox aliases
Message-ID: <20201226210505.LdFcLG7Fs%dave@restall.net>
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Hi,

New to Alpine Linux but am enjoying the experience :-)

My preferred editor is vim.  I installed it using apk and can run it
quite happily.  I would really like vim to be the system editor so when
I type 'vi filename' it uses vim instead of busybox vi :

alpine:/etc# which vi
/usr/bin/vi
alpine:/etc# ls -al /usr/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 25 21:46 /usr/bin/vi -> /bin/busybox

I could just do :

alpine:/etc# cd /usr/bin/; rm vi; ln -s vim vi 

but that seems a bit brutal, on other distros, there is an 'alternatives'
package for this sort of issue, is there anything similar in Alpine ?

Regards,




D
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