Re: Interloper vi

On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 4:24:14 PM UTC+12, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
...
> $ alias vi
> bash: alias: vi: not found

reveals your shell is bash.

> $ which vi
> /lhome/me/tools/bin/vi

"which" is not what you want with bash. It is /usr/bin/which, not a bash built-in, so it doesn't tell you what bash will do. In a new bash window, if I run:

$ type vim
vim is /usr/local/bin/vim
$ vim -c q
# the screen clears...
$ which vim
/usr/local/bin/vim
$ type vim
vim is hashed (/usr/local/bin/vim)

So, better use "type". Seeing vim hashed to something you don't expect would at least be a hint towards Tony's advice to try hash -r.

Regards, John Little

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