-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 mehul wrote: > > > On 5/13/07, *Ravi Shanker* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Remove and purge all the vi and vims, > then just install vim or vim-full, and there you go. > The error most likely maybe the wrong package installation, as > vi is lnk > to vim, so you type vi or vim, its same. > But not in your case it seems, as you told. So just reintall the > right > package. > > > But, that doesn't explain why that problem is occuring in the first place. > In fact, if it's the same application being called if you type vi or vim then > the behaviour should be the same, but it's not, in his case. > > And it would be nice if you can avoud top posting. - From the day Feisty got into my laptop a facing similar problems. Typing Vi takes you to Vi-tiny or Vi-minimal (which I got to use somewhere a month ago with debian). Here, the direction keys do not work. Rather we have to use the main keypad for movement and also the general I for insert also doesn't seem to work.
I dug into finding why, the 'vi' in /usr/bin was sym linked to /etc/alternatives/vi while /etc/alternatives/vi again point back to /usr/bin/vim. But if I check 'vim' in /usr/bin, it points to /etc/alternatives/vim which again points to /usr/bin/vim.tiny. This seems to be a viscious circle and when I try to fiddle with these links, I got messed to I had to get them back to original state. Now I take the pain of adding one more 'm' and typing 'vim filename' :( Note: I upgraded from Ubuntu Edgy fresh Install to Feisty after the official release. - -- With Regards - --- Parthan aka Technofreak [weblog] http://technofreakatchennai.wordpress.com [flickr] http://flickr.com/photos/techno_freak [irc] techno_freak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGR+66k4vYYS/wECYRAoOCAJ46Bz72jgkMga/3uW11U/d3xHn7QgCdEJRi YA5qmJEmKA4Ik5il76vyQNg= =NZWG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
