You should know that Vim behaves differently when invoked as vi then
when invoked as vim. Therefore, you may want to use vim from now on.
or use elvis. i have come to like elvis quite a lot. the debian install
defaults to the elvis GUI, which i can take or leave, but i'm sure there
is a way
* David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-24 16:15]:
> In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed
> functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or
> "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last
> character) of the line, and the direc
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:15:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed
> functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or
> "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last
> character) of the line, and th
On 24/05/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed functionality is
no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or "replace" does not
appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last character) of the line, and
the direction key
Steve:
Thanks for the fix. I just tried it and I'm VERY PLEASED to say that
it works!
Dean
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> Thursday, September 30, 1999, 2:02:55 PM, Dean wrote:
> > Anybody know how to get around this problem?
>
> If it is the problem I think it
Dean Allen Provins wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never
> experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line
> at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'.
> For the record, I use 'xterm's
Thursday, September 30, 1999, 2:02:55 PM, Dean wrote:
> Anybody know how to get around this problem?
If it is the problem I think it is...
dpkg -r nvi
apt-get install vim vim-rt
*or*
apt-get install elvis
Some editors (joe is one) have a problem when they exit on mucking up the
terminal
> Person, Rod wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I was attempting to install siag, and the installition call for me to do
> > the following...
> >
> > vi mktop.dr
> >
> > now this is the second thing I tried to install that called for me to
> > use vi and everytime I do it print the file t
Person, Rod wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I was attempting to install siag, and the installition call for me to do
> the following...
>
> vi mktop.dr
>
> now this is the second thing I tried to install that called for me to
> use vi and everytime I do it print the file to the screen...I lo
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