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

[Hubert Grzeskowiak]

David C. Rankin 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.
> 
> 
or just seach for something non-existent (slash = search)