Because editors like vim and neovim won't be added to the editors list, and they are managed by eselect-vi, I thought vi should show up as one of the available editors in eselect editor list, but it actually doesn't, here are the outputs of eselect editor list and eselect vi list Available targets for the EDITOR variable: [1] /bin/vi * --this was chosen using free form [ ] (free form) Available vi implementations: [1] nvim *
This looks like a result of https://bugs.gentoo.org/911792 where vi was dropped in favour of vim in the EDITOR list. But it seems removed the connection to the vi symlink controlled by eselect-vi.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 928607 ***
(In reply to Paul Zander from comment #1) > This looks like a result of https://bugs.gentoo.org/911792 where vi was > dropped in favour of vim in the EDITOR list. But it seems removed the > connection to the vi symlink controlled by eselect-vi. What I read here in the bugtracker was that Vim wouldn't be added for the same reason Nvim wouldn't be added, to keep the list short and simple, because all of those vi-like editors should be managed with eselect-vi
