Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:55:55 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> Cc: Roberto Armenteros <rarmente@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi editor behaving like a bad boy... Message-ID: <20020515145555.GA18800@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> In-Reply-To: <200205140109.47753.culverk@yumyumyum.org> References: <20020514042119.2335.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> <200205140109.47753.culverk@yumyumyum.org>
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Kenneth Culver writes: >The problem is that vi in linux is not the REAL vi... it's a modified vi... >you just have to get used to the real thing. VIM (which comes with most Lignux dists as vi, as opposed to the Bostic nvi, which is shipped with *BSD) in some ways works more like the real vi than nvi, in other ways it doesn't. Both are however only look&workalikes to vi, with somewhat different motivations (nvi tries to be rather "bug-for-bug-compatible" while vim piles features upon features like there were no tomorrow.) But that doesn't in any way affect so basic things like the "i" command not working. Something must be seriously broken on the original poster's system, or someone might have replaced /usr/bin/vi with something else (seen that in the past, when people, who were too inexperienced to set EDITOR, ln -sf'd /usr/local/bin/joe (totally different editor) to /usr/bin/vi...) --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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