On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:53:52AM -0400, Craig wrote: .... > > > >The alias of vi=vim for bash is set up in /etc/profile.d/vim.sh; as I > >mentioned yesterday, the aliases for /bin/sh are used by bash. > > > >Paul. > Quite right. I misundestood what you were looking for. Paul's right, you > want the /etc/profile.d/vim.sh. Caution. Editing default files impacts all users including root and daemon processes. In addition changes in profile.d may not be preserved or applicable in updates and upgrades. Since /etc/bashrc sources all the .sh files in /etc/profile.d/ it might be better to isolate changes to a local file perhaps "/etc/profile.d/zzzLocal.sh" (globbing must source it last). My preference is a dot file in $HOME/ If there is a change made to a system default file it is valuable that a record of the change needs to be made to a system notebook/Log. .... Snip lots of bits that have less value than some expect, and since they are near random they screw up compression too ;-( > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- .... -- T o m M i t c h e l l May your cup runneth over with goodness and mercy and may your buffers never overflow.
