Cygwin package vim breaks the command 'view'

[David Dyck]

Thank you for your research, and proposed fix
I had noticed this to from time to time.

did
alias view  >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias view=vim -R
need quotes also ?

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM andkin773--- via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Oops, I forgot the quotes for the aliases.
> It should be:
>
>     alias ex    >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias ex="vim -e"
>     alias rvi   >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias rvi="vim -Z"
>     alias rview >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias rview="vim -RZ"
>     alias view  >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias view="vim -R"
>
> Regards,
> Coen
>
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