"Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:10:34AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >> That sounds like either you're using a strange terminal, or a >> less-capable vi clone, or both. Debian doesn't tend to give you strange >> terminals (log in to other Unixes from Debian, though, and you'll find >> plenty; I've never bothered digging deep enough to find out which), so I >> suspect you're trying things which only work in certain vi clones. > >You, of course, realize that the nvi program used by Debian does behave >in the annoying ways of the original Vi.
Yup. I rather wish vim would become the Priority: important or Priority: standard vi; without the runtime files, it's not really significantly larger than nvi. I'm pretty sure it's been argued out on debian-devel before, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
