From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 0:18:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laika.martini.nu (12-224-18-46.client.attbi.com [12.224.18.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BAB737B404 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 00:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1977 invoked by uid 1001); 14 May 2002 07:17:45 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 00:17:44 -0700 To: RichardH Cc: Kenneth Culver , Roberto Armenteros , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... Message-ID: <20020514001744.A1952@martini.nu> References: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020513231434.02cf9390@pop.wsonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020513231434.02cf9390@pop.wsonline.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 19B8 DDB3 0156 3A03 FA80 8278 C0BE 6BFB 3606 B267 X-Sysinfo: Darwin 5.4, up 50 mins From: Mahlon X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) 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 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Even in the Linux version of vi (which is just ViM, last I checked) 'i' for insert works as expected. It could be a problem with your terminal settings, if you are using a wacky term program. Try settings your terminal to cons25, and fire up vi again. =20 % set term=3Dcons25 -Mahlon On Mon, May 13, 2002, RichardH wrote: > Thought that, but been awhile since I ran any linux except slack which ru= ns=20 > VI as UNIX does (I think slackware7.1 does at least), did not want to pis= s=20 > off a convert. Did not realize Linux (RedHat, SuSe, etc.) VI was diff. In= =20 > Slack it seemed to be regular VI, might be wrong on that. I do have a bas= ic=20 > UNIX VI tute on my site at www.storm2k.com, think it's from Purdue, just = a=20 > link (Thx to Purdue UNIV) but very comprehensive VI tute. Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu =2E......................................................................... overlarge underplug afterburn --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE84LoYwL5r+zYGsmcRAlRXAKCNis9Acc4a5xAfS1ndjD53cE5rLgCgpNYr bKbvDqwycLWp2+9CazBhk5M= =JsAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message