[arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Listmates:
>
>        I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on
> 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a smb.conf
> I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over
> all the comments and leading whitespace in the file. See (38k):
>
> http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vi-orange.jpg
>
>        What is the magic that makes this happen and ... more important ... how do I
> turn it off? I don't even know what setting to start looking for on this one?
> Anybody else run across this?
>
>        In case the environment is important to the answer, I on my laptop running
> openSuSE 11.0 using konsole on kde 3.5.10 and using ssh to open a terminal to
> my new archlinux box. Dunno? Maybe that makes a difference?
>
>        Any thoughts on this one are welcomed. Thanks.

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