[TriLUG] Re: need help from the vi gurus

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Tue Dec 9 09:04:34 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 08:44, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> no, that is quite simple, and it worked -- which confuses me, because 
> it seems when I used vi before that simply searching using /string did 
> not carry highlighting through to a new vi session (after i quit and 
> restart).  maybe i've been living in the twilight zone for the past few 
> years and have not noticed it ...

That's a feature of recent versions of vim, the vi replacement several
flavors of Linux include now-days.  Personally, it drives me nuts.

--[Lance]

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