Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-19 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 18 July 2009 12:54:06 am David C. Rankin wrote: On Saturday 18 July 2009 12:38:29 am David C. Rankin wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 03:49:49 am solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: i think you're using [testing] and then use vi-1.79 which is nvi. and not the vi you know which was a stripped

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-19 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/7/19, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: For anyone else caught with the same problem. I wrote a small script that reinstalls vim and moves vi to vi.vni. The script is nothing more that what you would simply do by hand, it just collects all the commands in one

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 13 July 2009 03:49:49 am solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: i think you're using [testing] and then use vi-1.79 which is nvi. and not the vi you know which was a stripped down version of vim nvi behave like the original vi and not like vim. i think there's nothing you can do about this to

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 18 July 2009 12:38:29 am David C. Rankin wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 03:49:49 am solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: i think you're using [testing] and then use vi-1.79 which is nvi. and not the vi you know which was a stripped down version of vim nvi behave like the original vi and

[arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, One are where I can use help is vi configuration. With the latest updates to vi and I guess readline, vi behaves very differently than it did just before the update. Specifically, the screen flashes white/black when the cursor is in column 1 if a left cursor is pressed or if

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM, David C. Rankindrankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Listmates,        One are where I can use help is vi configuration. With the latest updates to vi and I guess readline, vi behaves very differently than it did just before the update. Specifically, the

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
i think you're using [testing] and then use vi-1.79 which is nvi. and not the vi you know which was a stripped down version of vim nvi behave like the original vi and not like vim. i think there's nothing you can do about this to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ?

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 13 July 2009 11:49, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ? +1 to that -- If we could implement a physical system with the storage capacity that matches the 128-bit address range of ZFS, that we would literally evaporate all the oceans on earth.

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ed Jobsolori...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 11:49, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ? +1 to that Sounds like a good idea, especially since nvi _isn't_ vi in the strictest sense. /M -- Magnus Therning

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Zé Ninguém
2009/7/13 Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ed Jobsolori...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 11:49, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ? +1 to that Sounds like a good idea, especially since nvi _isn't_ vi in

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 05:32, Magnus Therningmag...@therning.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ed Jobsolori...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 11:49, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ? +1 to that Sounds like a good idea, especially

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread hollunder
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:32:45 +0100 Zé Ninguém meugni...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/13 Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ed Jobsolori...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 11:49, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: to the dev: why not rename vi package to

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Stefan Husmann
David C. Rankin schrieb: Listmates, One are where I can use help is vi configuration. With the latest updates to vi and I guess readline, vi behaves very differently than it did just before the update. Specifically, the screen flashes white/black when the cursor is in column 1 if a

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:46:50 +0200 Stefan Husmann stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: David C. Rankin schrieb: Listmates, One are where I can use help is vi configuration. With the latest updates to vi and I guess readline, vi behaves very differently than it did just before the

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Zé Ninguémmeugni...@gmail.com wrote: Neither was the previous vi, and the package was named vi. I think there needs to exist a binary named vi in the system, for POSIX compliance, but I am not shure. So if there needs to be a package that provides it, there