On Saturday 18 July 2009 12:38:29 am David C. Rankin wrote:
On Monday 13 July 2009 03:49:49 am solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
i think you're using [testing] and then use vi-1.79 which is nvi. and not the vi you know which was a stripped down version of vim
nvi behave like the original vi and not like vim. i think there's nothing you can do about this
to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ?
I'm using what ever gets started with "vi"; looks like:
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I'll go load vim and report back. Thanks!
WHEW!! All back to normal: 00:45 supersff:~> pms gvim vim vim-a vim-bufexplorer vim-buftabs vim-colorsamplerpack vim-guicolorscheme vim-matchit vim-minibufexpl vim-project vim-workspace Why did the upgrade to testing uninstall vim and install vi anyway? I recall that my /etc/virc was wiped out by one of the 200 packages updated, but I just thought it was the same editor that changed the name of its config file. What was the update that did this so I can avoid it in the future? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com