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