On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:36, Paul Varner wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:22, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Why is vi opening like this? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark $ vi .xinitrc > > [Using open mode] > > ".xinitrc" 10 lines, 117 characters > > #!/bin/bash > > > > > > How can I get it back to normal operation? This started recently, but I > > don't know what caused it. vim works fine. > > It was broken by the recent upgrade to libtermcap-compat. It has since > been fixed, if you do an emerge sync, followed by an emerge -uDpv world, > you should see portage wanting to downgrade libtermcap-compat back to > the previous version. For more information see bug # 36903 in bugzilla. > > Regards, > Paul
Thanks Paul. emerge -pv ended up being more appropriate on my system it appears. The others would have downgraded too many things. That said, it's all fixed now. Thanks for the pointer. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
