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Re: Sarge->Etch Upgrade Minor Problems



Glennie Vignarajah <glennie@glennie.fr>:
>  Le Wednesday 08 August 2007, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) disait:
> 
> > The default settings for vi have been changed. Display looks weird
> > in terms of colors, etc. Can't figure what vi/vim file needs
> > changing. I have backups of course of all pre-upgrade config
> > files. I've tried using the "old" /etc/vim/vimrc, but no change.
> 
>  If you've installed vim 7, try to edit /etc/vim/vimrc and check if
>  'runtimepath' contains '/usr/share/vim/vim70'. If not, try add it.
>  IIRC, I resolved a problem related by doing this.(On our machines,

Another thing to check is which vim is installed.  I believe the
default in Etch is vim-tiny, in which a number of useful features are
unavailable. 


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