ligoxi
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Post by ligoxi on Sept 29, 2021 10:08:17 GMT
hello friendly folks, again a happy day using BL 6 standard edition. After today's update, i noticed that vim was added. When i run the program, nothing happens. Hope my memory is still in good shape, i do not recall seeing the vim icon so far in the menu. I do not really need vim anyways... Attachments:
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Post by oblio on Sept 29, 2021 14:09:37 GMT
I'm wondering if you should actually install VIM or remove/purge it? Have you tried to uninstall it? My thought was install it to uninstall it, but likely there is a more eloquent way to remedy this.
[EDIT] There was some recent chat on our Discord recently about Vi and VIM:
Not sure it's terribly pertinent...
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Sept 29, 2021 14:26:46 GMT
This is a problem with the shortcut (desktop file). vim itself is installed as vi, but the desktop file pointing to vim.
From terminal, just remember to run 'vi' instead of vim, or create yourself an alias. From the menu entry, either hide it or fix the exec line locally.
To fix desktop file, copy it from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications and edit with text editor.
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ligoxi
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Post by ligoxi on Sept 29, 2021 14:33:51 GMT
not a problem really, just mentioned it in case this is an issue also for other users
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Post by thewaiter on Sept 29, 2021 14:47:36 GMT
I am not aware of anything we changed related to vim. I am confused...
Stefan
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sparkill
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Post by sparkill on Sept 29, 2021 15:05:44 GMT
I am confused.
if i uninstall vim. the next update will come back?
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Sept 29, 2021 15:20:11 GMT
I am confused. if i uninstall vim. the next update will come back?
No, if you uninstall something, it won't be reinstalled in an update (unless something else updates to require it as a dependency). But I don't think you *can* remove vim from bodhi 6 easily, since their is no vi/vim package installed. It must be part of some basic utils package that we really shouldn't get rid of.
However, if you directly edit the desktop file in /usr/share/applications (which requires sudo), then an update could overwrite your edited file. That's why I suggested to copy it to your home dir as described above. If you want it to hide it (instead of fix the exec line) then add "NoDisplay=true".
You could also use a menu editor like menulibre to hide or fix it you dont like editing text files, i.e:
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Sept 29, 2021 15:33:44 GMT
I couldn't let this go, so I did find the package bodhi 6 has vim in, and it does seem safe to remove. It's vim-tiny
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sparkill
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Post by sparkill on Feb 27, 2023 12:46:54 GMT
frustrated for not knowing why the syntax has no color remember this... removing vim-tiny and installing vim solved it  |
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