Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-25 Thread Glenn Becker
You should know that Vim behaves differently when invoked as vi then when invoked as vim. Therefore, you may want to use vim from now on. or use elvis. i have come to like elvis quite a lot. the debian install defaults to the elvis GUI, which i can take or leave, but i'm sure there is a way

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-25 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-24 16:15]: > 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 direc

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
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 th

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-24 Thread Richard
On 24/05/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 key

Vi problems from recent upgrade

2006-05-24 Thread David Baron
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