[PLUG] vi problem on Redhat 7.2

lemming at attbi.com lemming at attbi.com
Fri Jun 21 22:20:50 UTC 2002


Try "vi -N";  This run vim non-compatible mode. Vi 
compatible mode which doesn't do syntax. You may need to 
muck about with your .vimrc

-mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Horan" <bhoran at anythingemail.com>
> > try typing vim
> 
> Brian,
> 
> Thanks, but I already tried that.  Says "command not found".  Our admin
> assures me that we don't actually have vi on the box and vi is, in fact,
> vim.  Since it identifies itself as vim and all of its documentation is for
> vim, I assume that this is, in fact, the case.  Typing "man vi":
> 
>   VIM(1)
>   ...blah, blah, blah...
> 
> Since it's behaving like vi, I assume that this is why it's using
> vi-emulation mode.





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