525226 - MozillaBuild 1.4 is missing the vi and view shell scripts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Wan-Teh Chang]

MozillaBuild 1.4 is missing the vi and view shell scripts,
which are present in older versions of MozillaBuild.

These scripts are useful to people like me who started
using vi before vim existed.  As bug 495810 comment 2 shows,
it's common to use the "vi" name.

In MozillaBuild 1.3, I have:

$ cd /bin

Wan-Teh Chang@PC3 /bin
$ ls vi*
vi  view  vim.exe

Wan-Teh Chang@PC3 /bin
$ cat view
#! /bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2002, Earnie Boyd
#   mailto:[e-mail]
# This file is a part of Minimal SYStem
#   http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml
# File: view

exec vim -R "$@"

Wan-Teh Chang@PC3 /bin
$ cat vi
#! /bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2002, Earnie Boyd
#   mailto:[e-mail]
# This file is a part of Minimal SYStem
#   http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml
# File: vi

exec vim "$@"

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I switched to a totally different vim package in 1.4 (bug 495810), and it's a native Windows build, so presumably that's why it doesn't have a shell script. Should be easy enough to put them back.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I added back shell scripts with the same commands:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/rev/794f22c0a5c1

They'll be in MozillaBuild 1.5, which should be finished soon.