From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 6:49:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF71437B400 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 06:49:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 36609 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 13:49:07 -0000 Received: from ken.yumyumyum.org (192.168.0.2) by router.yumyumyum.org with SMTP; 14 May 2002 13:49:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kenneth Culver To: Mahlon Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:49:59 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020513231434.02cf9390@pop.wsonline.net> <20020514001744.A1952@martini.nu> In-Reply-To: <20020514001744.A1952@martini.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200205140949.59880.culverk@yumyumyum.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 14 May 2002 03:17 am, you wrote: > Even in the Linux version of vi (which is just ViM, last I checked) 'i'= for > insert works as expected. It could be a problem with your terminal > settings, if you are using a wacky term program. > > Try settings your terminal to cons25, and fire up vi again. > > % set term=3Dcons25 Well, if linux vi is vim, then when he hits 'i' to insert, the bottom of = the=20 screen says -- INSERT -- but our standard vi doesn't... that's probably w= hat=20 threw him... Ken > > -Mahlon > > On Mon, May 13, 2002, RichardH wrote: > > Thought that, but been awhile since I ran any linux except slack whic= h > > runs VI as UNIX does (I think slackware7.1 does at least), did not wa= nt > > to piss off a convert. Did not realize Linux (RedHat, SuSe, etc.) VI = was > > diff. In Slack it seemed to be regular VI, might be wrong on that. I = do > > have a basic UNIX VI tute on my site at www.storm2k.com, think it's f= rom > > Purdue, just a link (Thx to Purdue UNIV) but very comprehensive VI tu= te. > > Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini= =2Enu > http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini= =2Enu > .......................................................................= =2E.. > overlarge underplug afterburn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message