On Wednesday 04 November 2009 15:50:02 Jan de Groot wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:43 -0700, Byron Clark wrote:
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
A negative side effect of the new console resolution is that vi will NOT run. It errors out on start complaining about the text mode size being too big. Vim and mc handle the resolution without any problem.
Most simple fix at this moment: pacman -R vi; pacman -S vim; ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi
I hate the basic vi package, but that's because I'm used to the way vim works with all its features not present in ex-vi or nvi.
I always do this to begin with, but it was a brand new install so I hadn't got to the point of installing vim ( but I did -- real quick -- once I hit the vi bug :-) -- 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