[arch-general] vi problems

[Loui Chang]

On Fri 16 Oct 2009 07:33 +1100, richard terry wrote:
> 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.

vi provides ex-vi.

See `pacman -Si vi`

> 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
> 
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> vim: /usr/bin/rview exists in filesystem

Try `pacman -Qo /usr/bin/rview`
If no package owns it and you haven't created that file yourself, then
it should be safe to force the install.