On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:39:29AM -0600, fREW wrote: > I just updated to feisty on a samba server machine and a lot of the > vim defaults went crazy. For example: Pressing the Up or Down keys > in insert mode add new lines with just A or B on them, respectively.
This is what vi does. Movement is performed by hjkl, remember? > That I can live with, but check this out, if I have the following > sentence: > > fREW is a silly guy > > and my cursor is on the s, and I press cw, it changes to > > fREW is a sill$ guy > > and it works just like I had pressed cw and it replaces up the the $ > or if I press escape it only has the new text I put in, but it's just > so weird! This is exactly what vi does. Command cw changes the word (and does only that), $ marks where it ends. > Does anyone know where these new changes in Feisty come > from? This has been hopefully explained already (vi runs a binary that really behaves like vi, whereas vim runs something more featureful -- this common in Linux distros). Anyway, it's a bit strange when a vim user describes vi as `crazy' and `so weird'... Yeti -- http://gwyddion.net/