From 12dff6de62cef80a65752697687d66572c810478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 20:31:12 +1200
Subject: Try a compatibility switch on vi/vim

---
 sh/profile.d/visual.sh | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'sh/profile.d')

diff --git a/sh/profile.d/visual.sh b/sh/profile.d/visual.sh
index 50b8b423..19c8f490 100644
--- a/sh/profile.d/visual.sh
+++ b/sh/profile.d/visual.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
-# For a visual editor, use whichever kind of vi we get when we invoke 'vi'
-VISUAL='vi'
+# For a visual editor, use Vim explicitly if we've got it, but otherwise any vi
+# implementation will be fine
+if command -v vim >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+    VISUAL='vim'
+else
+    VISUAL='vi'
+fi
 export VISUAL
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