[usability] select-editor offers `vim.gnome` rather than `vim`
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sensible-utils (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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-
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/alternativ
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
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: debianutils
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic i686
affects: | debianutils (Ubuntu) → sensible-utils (Ubuntu) |