On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> Just upgraded Vi on one of our boxes to Vim60av (just out today,
>ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unreleased/unix/vim-6.0av.tar.bz2) and it's
> causing trouble when I use the cursor keys.
>
> Can anyone suggest anything?
Yeah - the newer vim's check to see what they were called as. If it was
'vi' then they're damn well going to act like vi whether you like it or
not. Easiest thing to do is to alias vi to 'vim -N'. The -N isn't
necessary, but just makes vim less vi-like and more userfriendly.
Steve
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