Re: compile of 9.8 failed

[joerg van den hoff]

On 04.01.23 15:50, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 03:16:44PM +0100, joerg van den hoff wrote:
> > > If you don't have a [f]lex that vile likes you won't be able to build
> > > built-in syntax filters.
> >
> > understood. that one I had fixed by installing flex individually.
> > >
> >
> > again, thanks a lot for your help! I can now active `alias vi=vile' and
> > EDITOR=vile in my .kshrc and
> > be happy again.
> Excellent, I'm glad it all worked out.
>
> If you investigate 'alternatives' (man update-alternatives) you can
> make vile your vi for everyone and everything, including root.  It's
> handy for root at least so that you get vile when editing config files
> and such in /etc.

I will have to look into this, thank you (linux userland and customs really are 
somewhat
different from osx/bsd :)).

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