Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Re: Interloper vi

Maybe your shell has forgotten to update its hash tables of
"remembered" program locations.

Try (at a shell prompt)
hash -r

to forget everything, then invoke vi again.

Best regards,
Tony.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:24 AM, 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use
<vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Tried the suggestions from Tim and Tony, but to no avail:
>
>
> $ echo $PATH
>
> /lhome/me/tools/bin:/lhome/me/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/opt/rocm/bin:/lhome/me/g/bin
>
> $ alias vi
> bash: alias: vi: not found
>
> $ cd
> $ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f |xargs grep alias | grep vi
> <no output>
>
> $ type -a vi
> vi is /lhome/me/tools/bin/vi
> vi is /usr/bin/vi
>
> $ ll /lhome/me/tools/bin/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 hidden hidden 28 Jul 31 19:18 /lhome/me/tools/bin/vi ->
> /lhome/me/tools/bin/vim*
>
> $ ll /lhome/me/tools/bin/vim
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 hidden hidden 2723248 Jul 31 18:53 /lhome/me/tools/bin/vim*
>
> $ ll /usr/bin/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 16 2017 /usr/bin/vi ->
> /etc/alternatives/vi*
>
> $ ll /etc/alternatives/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 21 2017 /etc/alternatives/vi ->
> /usr/bin/vim.gtk3*
>
> $ ll /usr/bin/vim.gtk3
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2927872 Nov 24 2016 /usr/bin/vim.gtk3*
>
> $ which vi
> /lhome/me/tools/bin/vi
>
> Still `vi --version` shows the old version (and `vim --version` shows
> the latest version)
>
>
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