From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 18: 6:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls16.mediaone.net (chmls16.mediaone.net [24.147.1.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BDF37B40D for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sickness (h0000c0f0bdd0.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.160.109]) by chmls16.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8E16sT15245; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:06:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "David Loszewski" To: "'Cliff Sarginson'" Cc: Subject: RE: vi question, please help... Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:03:50 -0400 Message-ID: <003b01c13cb9$219c6b00$3000a8c0@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 In-Reply-To: <20010914000801.A8894@raggedclown.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG K, I think more of the question is how do I configure vi so in order to delete previous text I can press the 'backspace'? Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Cliff Sarginson Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:08 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi question, please help... On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:13:29PM -0500, gLaNDix wrote: > > > dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > > > vim does not replace vi; they coexist. To use vim you must specify > > vim, or make an alias. > > what I prefer to do is install vim normally (via ports or package) then > rename the original "vi" binary to "vi.orig"... then, creating a link to > vim in the dir that "vi.org" now exists... that way, if something that > Vim is dependant on gets dorked up, you still have vi.orig! > > just my preference... > Wouldn;t it be easier to just alias vi to vim ? -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message