[TriLUG] Re: need help from the vi gurus

[Lance A. Brown]

Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> AH -- I just upgraded to RedHat 9, maybe it's the culprit!

In that case, you can get back to the good ol' vi behavior by unaliasing 
vi in your own rc files or disable /etc/profile.d/vim.sh or vim.csh. 
Red Hat graciously hides the normal vi program behind an alias to vim.

--[Lance]

> 
> Doug
> 
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:04 AM, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> 
>> 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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