[arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, David C.
Rankin<drankinatty at 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