Re: VI probs

[Stefan Janecek <s.janecek@hlphys.uni-linz.ac.at>]

In a galaxy not too far away, Grischa Schuering spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:30:13PM +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with the VI.
> When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status line below, now there
> isnt anything. Also Delete isn't working as before, also when using the
> cursor keys, always the INSERT mode discontinues...
> 
> Any way of changing that ??

Whats called 'vi' in suse is actually vim. do 'apt-get install vim vim-rt'
and use vim to edit your files - it should behave like vi on suse...

hope that helps,
/stefan
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Grischa