Nano editor

[jpjpjp]

This is an old post, but I see in firmware 16 that the real vi no longer exists and vi is a symlink to nano.

Would it be a problem to grab a copy of vi somewhere and drop it into the fdvw /usr/bin directory? I'm just not familiar with the nano syntax.

[Jocko]

Indeed there is an issue...

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root@Acrab:/ # whereis nano vi
nano: /usr/bin/nano
vi: /bin/vi /usr/bin/vi
root@Acrab:/ # ls -l  /usr/bin/nano  /bin/vi /usr/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      7 2014-12-30 11:41 /bin/vi -> busybox
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 159828 2011-12-02 22:34 /usr/bin/nano
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 2014-12-30 11:41 /usr/bin/vi -> nano


so you have vi tool if you use /bin/vi but nano tool with the path /usr/bin/vi. :shocked I don't remember why we did that :scratch

[jpjpjp]

Thanks Jocko! I guess FVDW users prefer nano. I copied the real vi back to /usr/bin and I'm quite happy now.

Cheers!

[musafirrlail]

Can use with fvdw firmware 16.0 on D2N2 ?

[Jocko]

Hi musafirrlail,

In Putty, do

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unlink /usr/bin/vi
cd  /usr/bin
ln -s  ../../bin/busybox  vi

[musafirrlail]

Okay Thanks Jocko I'll keep tryin