On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, David C. Rankin<drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 22 June 2009 02:36:26 am Allan McRae wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates, Devs:
I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in insert mode if you move to colum 1 things go nuts, insert mode is changed into some kind of vampire. None of the normal key mappings work, and I can't get my beloved vi back by restoring the virc from the virc.pacnew - GGRrrrr :-(
How do I make my vi return to normal? What's the trick? If restoring the virc and changing the settings has no effect (I even logged out and back) Wher are the magic settings now?
And... if the version I have can't be made to behave like my normal vi/vim again, "Then what is the proper way to downgrade vi so I can get my friend back?
The new "vi" is "nvi" which I agree is crap.... So you probably want to uninstall vi, install vim and symlink /usr/bin/vim to /usr/bin/vi. Probably have to change your config to /etc/vimrc but I am not sure about that.
Allan
Thanks Tobias and Allan,
That is just what I needed to know!
The whole point of using testing is.. you should have known that already. :) -- Greg