Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:15:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed
> functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or
> "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last
> character) of the line, and the direction keys give (escaped)
> characters instead of positioning the cursor.
It's probably a result of vim being more compatible with the classic vi,
when invoked as 'vi' instead of 'vim'.
You can fix this in a couple of ways:
a) always call it with 'vim' instead of 'vi'
or
b) create a ~/.vimrc file with the contents:
set nocp
Cheers,
Paul
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