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by jlgreco 4876 days ago
An alias will only work with things that are using your shell with your configuration sourced. Things that merely use your PATH won't pick that up.
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johncoltrane 4876 days ago
For the typical use of Vim, it's perfect:

    $ vim filename
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jlgreco 4876 days ago
It breaks down when you use it in other common ways, like from your git configuration.
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johncoltrane 4876 days ago
You can't use

    vim
anyway in git: you must give it the full path.
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jlgreco 4876 days ago
No, just 'vim' itself is fine, if you have a 'vim' in your PATH.

https://github.com/search?q=%27editor+%3D%27++extension%3A.g...

What I usually do is maintain a set of symlinks in ~/bin/ (which is in my PATH) if they are not already in my PATH (or if I want them to override something else in my PATH, like HEAD builds of various things on occasion), and only use aliases to set default arguments (`ls --color=auto` for example).

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johncoltrane 4875 days ago
No. On Mac OS X, using `vim` generally causes this error:

    error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi'
The full path must be used to get rid of it.
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