[arch-general] vi problems

[richard terry]

On Friday 16 October 2009 01:11:00 Øyvind Heggstad wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:59:59 +1100
> 
> richard terry <rterry at pacific.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of
> > weeks and now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key
> > allocations seem all wrong (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all
> > print A', B' etc.
> >
> > Clueless as to where to start.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Richard
> 
> vi is now ex-vi, which behaves mostly like the original vi. So you have
> to use 'hjkl' and so on. (which you should use anyway)

ex-vi dosn't seem to be available as a package?where does one find it.

Also I tried another's suggestiong about vim, but it conflicts with a file and 
I didn't want to force it in case there were problems ?any comments?
> 
Targets (1): vim-7.2.266-1

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   28.69 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   
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100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
vim: /usr/bin/rview exists in filesystem


Regards

Richard