Re: Weirdness with vi

[Michael Koehne <kraehe@copyleft.de>]

Moin Tomasz Papszun,

> Of course, make sure that /tmp has the sticky bit.

  missing write access in /tmp can also cause other funny things. I remember
  a version of bash that dumped core, when pressing the <TAB> key, if there
  was no write access to /tmp possible :-(

  But back to vi - unfortunately Debian has a default vi that is quite useless
  for system adminstration as its based on /usr/lib/terminfo, and /usr may not
  be mounted in this case. The next uglyness is that a full elvis, which is
  the best vi that qualifies for system adminstration, is only available in
  conjunction with X. So the only vi left for system administration is the
  tini-elvis, which behaves unusual in many cases, which is bad if system
  administration is done blind ahead over a slow line.

  At last a warning !not! to use vim. This vi has the ugly bug^h^h^hfeature
  to know that MS-DOS files end with \r\n. So vim will suppress the leading^M
  normaly shown by real vi versions. I've seen it many times that such a^M
  caused a script to break, and a programmer unable to find the bug for hours.

Bye Michael
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