Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-23 Thread Matthew Winn
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:51:29 -0700, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As at least one person has noted, there are many users who expect a vi-compatible program when they type vi at the command-line. When this isn't what you want, you really should consider changing your habit to use vim,

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 11:39 AM, fREW wrote: Hey all, 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. That I can live with, but check this

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread fREW
On 5/22/07, Michael Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 22, 2007, at 11:39 AM, fREW wrote: Hey all, 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

RE: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
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

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread fREW
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

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread fREW
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,

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Palm
Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007, schreef 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

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 11:59 AM, fREW wrote: 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

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Yeti
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:39:29AM -0600, fREW 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. This is what vi does. Movement is

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread fREW
On 5/22/07, Peter Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007, schreef 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

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 12:34 PM, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: This has been hopefully explained already (vi runs a binary that really behaves like vi, whereas vim runs something more featureful -- this common in Linux distros). Anyway, it's a bit strange when a vim user describes vi as `crazy' and

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread fREW
On 5/22/07, David Nečas (Yeti) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:39:29AM -0600, fREW 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

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Yeti
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:41:18AM -0600, fREW wrote: Well, nocompatible is recommended, and since this is a vim list, not just a vi list, I wouldn't think that it would be strange at all for people to expect vim (not vi) when they want vim. That's why you have two commands: vi and vim. Vim

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Micah Cowan
fREW wrote: 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