[Radiance-general] vi: fatal - missing octree argument

[Greg Ward]

Hi Leslie,

The last official release of Radiance installs the interactive viewer, 
"rview," which is named the same as a symbolic link to "vim".  If you 
chose as your executable directory /usr/bin, where vim lives, you may 
have overwritten the original vim executable by mistake.  This is why 
it's a good idea to use /usr/local/bin or some special directory for 
Radiance executables.  (The default is "/usr/local/bin" in the makeall 
installation script.)

In the HEAD version and the next release, we have renamed "rview" to 
"rvu" to avoid this conflict in the future.

You will need to retrieve the "vim" executable from backup to get it 
back -- sorry!

-Greg

> From: Leslie Everett <leslie.o.everett at verizon.net>
> Date: May 31, 2004 9:36:43 AM PDT
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Radiance 3.5 on my Powerbook G4 running Mac OS X. 
> I think the install may have broken Vim 6.2. When I type "vi" or "vim" 
> I get this error message:
>
> vi: fatal - missing octree argument
>
> writing: which vi
>
> /usr/bin/vi
>
> writing: /usr/bin/vi --version
>
> /usr/bin/vi : fatal - command line error at ' -- version'
>
> writing: "vi foo"
>
> vi - system - cannot open octree file 'foo": no such file or diretory
>
> I've checked:
>
> /usr/share/vim/vimrc
> /usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/viminfo.vim
> /usr/bin/vi
>
> Radiance works fine, I can render scenes, but I can't use vi. I spoke 
> to the creator of vim, he thinks Radiance has installed a program that 
> has replaced vi. Can anyone suggest a change I can make to fix this 
> problem? Is this a problem anyone has seen or heard before?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Leslie