From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 15: 3:34 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 7613237B403 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 15:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 39282 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 22:03:04 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 14 May 2002 22:03:04 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:03:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... In-Reply-To: <20020514170943.GC5715@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: <20020514180257.A39278-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 lol, that I didn't know. Ken On Tue, 14 May 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-05-14 09:49, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Well, if linux vi is vim, then when he hits 'i' to insert, the > > bottom of the screen says -- INSERT -- but our standard vi > > doesn't... that's probably what threw him... > > If your ~/.exrc contains: > > set showmode > > the FreeBSD vi will do the right thing, and display the current mode > in the bottom right corner of the terminal window too :) > > -- > Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org > keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message