[TriLUG] Re: God, how I hate thee, VIM

[Lance A. Brown]

If it's a RHEL or Fedora box, and you don't want the fun syntax 
coloring, etc. that vim provides, try

$ unalias vi

in your shell.  That should get you back to a plain-jane version of vi 
(vim, really) that doesn't do all the extra whiz-bang junk vim provides.

--[Lance]

gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> Ah, good point.  I'm feeling *a little* better.
> 
> After trying to figure out what was going wrong I found the following 
> odd scenario:
> 
> vi ./file
> (auto repeat is NOT on)
> (save file)
> 
> chmod 755 ./file
> vi ./file
> (auto repeat IS on)
> 
> Strange.
> 
> If I am editing a file with the executable bits set and I enter interactive 
> mode and write a comment, then hit enter VIM automatically places a "#" 
> at the start of the next line.
> 
> In order to stop having "#"s at the start of every line I have to:
> 
> 1. hit escape
> 2. and rather than appending to the end of that line I have to use the "j"
> key to drop to a new which seems to exit auto repeat.
> 
> I guess I just have to get used to using this wonderful "feature" and 
> overcome 10 years of escaping out of interactive mode then hitting "a" 
> then "enter" to get to a "clean" newline.
> 
> I guess I freaked out a bit. :)  Heh... work is fun.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
> Sent: Oct 21, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] God, how I hate thee, VIM
> 
> What do you mean by a "POS auto-repeat thing" ... what are the exact
> symptoms/problems?  I realize your frustration but we need a little
> clearer description..
> 
> Also feel free to drop by IRC, #trilug on irc.freenode.net, as a place
> to vent frustration too :-)
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:06, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
>>I'm running Knoppix 3.4 (I don't have a 3.6 cd here) and I'm having 
>>to write scripts.  VIM for some $#@#%^&* reason, VIM has a a POS 
>>auto-repeat thing built in with no clear way to shut off what is simply 
>>the MOST ANNOYING THING SINCE THE BLINK TAG!!!!!!
>>
>>Man page = no help.  Google = no help yet.  

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