[usability] select-editor offers `vim.gnome` rather than `vim`

[Dominic Evans]

Binary package hint: debianutils

# Disclaimer

NB: This may be considered a bug in vim-full packaging rather than select-editor

# Abstract

select-editor is non-intuitive when it comes to selecting the full version of console-based vim

# Description

select-editor offers output based on `update-alternatives --list editor`.

When both vim-tiny and vim-full are installed this displays the entries /usr/bin/vim.tiny and /usr/bin/vim.gnome

However, as a user, I immediately (and incorrectly) assume that vim.gnome would be for the gtk version of vim, and vim.tiny for the (crippled) version of console vim. What I expect to see here is simply /usr/bin/vim or perhaps the /etc/alternatives/vim symlink, which I would expect to invoke the full version of console-based vim.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 1 12:14:25 2009
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.4.0-3ubuntu5
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.0-3ubuntu5
 findutils 4.4.1-1ubuntu3
 libc6 2.9-9ubuntu1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: debianutils 2.30ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
SourcePackage: debianutils
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic i686