Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 15:33]: > > > > one of the annoying things about vim-users is that most > > > > of them don't know much about vi, and tend to ascribe > > > > lots of things to vim that are standard in vi. > > > > > > Hey

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread Sven Guckes
* Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 15:33]: > > > one of the annoying things about vim-users is that most > > > of them don't know much about vi, and tend to ascribe > > > lots of things to vim that are standard in vi. > > > > Hey, Sven, calm down, will ya? ;) > > He's tamer than h

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Price
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:46:16PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > and you don't want to share you #editor value with us? hint hint > besides, you might want to upgrade to vim 6.1 ... > vi launched from a shell says: :ve VIM - Vi IMproved 5.

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: > * Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 09:04]: > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: > > > > > vim has a :version command, which other vi clones don't seem to; vim > > > > :ve is standard. > > (:version is also recognized b

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread darren chamberlain
* Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 09:04]: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: > > > vim has a :version command, which other vi clones don't seem to; vim > > :ve is standard. > (:version is also recognized by all of the vi's that I recall - > including elvis). OK, I

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: > vim has a :version command, which other vi clones don't seem to; vim :ve is standard. (:version is also recognized by all of the vi's that I recall - including elvis). > with cp set will still respond to :version, while elvis will not (well, > it

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread Sven Guckes
* Dave Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 12:24]: > I think I have narrowed down the issue I am > experiencing to being mutt specific. > > When I am composing / editing a messge in mutt, it > seems that my .vimrc is not being fully read, if at > all. Also, vim-specific features like tab expans

Re: vi startup (not vim?)

2002-09-18 Thread darren chamberlain
* Dave Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 08:23]: > Is there a way to tweak the way mutt lauches vi to get these features > to run in a 'vimmish' way? To what is $editor set? If it is set to 'vi', then you might be getting either vim in compatible mode, or not vim (i.e., the default vi on yo