On 5/22/07, fREW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/22/07, Gene Kwiecinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Sounds like it stopped recognising arrow keys' ANSI sequences ("<esc>[A" > and "<esc>[B"). Wouldda thought the <esc> would break out of insert > mode, but... > > > >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! Does anyone know where these new changes in Feisty come > > Uhh, sounds like what it's supposta do, no? ?? > > Is there a problem with actually changing the text, or just what's > displayed? Dunno the setting offhand, but a slow-redraw will mark to > the end of the text to be replaced, eg, if you were to change to the end > of the line, you'd still see the whole line, but with a '$' where the > last character would be, vs erasing all the text and just leaving the > insert-cursor in its place. I find the latter disquieting, and would > rather *see* what I'm replacing, but never really paid too much > attention to which settings do what. I'm complacent that way... :D >I prefer that cw doesn't do this weird $ thing. It bothers me. I might be ok with it if the word I was typing over were a different color, but that is not the case. Also: set nocompatible worked just fine, but I wanted to make this a system wide setting. I think that the problem has to do with vim not sourcing the /etc/vim/vimrc. It appears that that is why things aren't working correctly. Anyone know why it wouldn't source that file? -fREW
I figured it out and if anyone else has this problem I am sending out the solution. Basically when I run vi it is running vim.tiny. vim.tiny sources /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny, not /etc/vim/vimrc, also, vim.tiny is pretty crippled, in that it doesn't even have syntax highlighting, so consider whether that's even what you want. -fREW
