From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 11:45:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF0737B404 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26969 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 18:45:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO helios.sr.nextrials.com) ([64.81.74.130]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 14 May 2002 18:45:06 -0000 Received: from helios.sr.nextrials.com (jim@localhost.dub.net [127.0.0.1]) by helios.sr.nextrials.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4EIj4Mh011593; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by helios.sr.nextrials.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4EIj4Ga011592; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:45:03 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Roberto Armenteros Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... Message-ID: <20020514184503.GA309@helios.sr.nextrials.com> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Mon, 13 May 2002 at 21:21:19 -0700, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > I started using vi in linux and it became my favorite text editor. > Now, in my two installations of freeBSD vi is practically impossible > to use. The most basic shorcuts like pressing i or insert to start > typing dont work. I always end up screwing up the texts i open with > vi. I really dont know what is causing this problem. Is it a > configuration problem? In linux vi would work perfectly from the > default installation, isnt it so in freebsd? I would appreciate any > input in this matter. That's because it's vim in most Linux distributions. If you want vim, install the port -- /usr/ports/editors/vim - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message