Re: Debian's default vim.

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Ethan Vaughn <vaughne@home.com> wrote:
>Ethan Vaughn wrote:
>> I've used older versions of vim that did the following:
>>   - Tell you at the bottom of the screen whether you are in
>>     --Insert-- or --Replace-- mode.
>> 
>>   - Stay in Insert mode while using cursor keys to move around.
>> 
>> If anyone has any ideas how to config vim for such I'd greatly
>> appreciate it.
>
>Answered my own question:
>
>alias vi='vi -N'
>
>is the behaviour I was looking for...

'set nocompatible' in your ~/.vimrc or /etc/vimrc will make this the
default, if you'd prefer that.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]