On Sunday 31 March 2002 22:51, Ronan Waide wrote:
> Depends on your vi variant; elvis on debian seems to be particularly
> rabid about invading your private notions of how vi should work. I use
> "set normal" to turn off pretty much everything. At least, I think
"Unknown option" here. I should point out that this is a Mandrake 8.1
box, with lots of syntax highlighting and so on installed. I think
that's why it's being overly helpful (in the microsoft sense of then
word helpful).
> And I'm too lazy to take my own advice and RTFM on an editor that
> should work the same way as it did ten years ago, dammit.
At least the cursor keys work. I'm grateful for that :)
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