Vi problem

[Shahzad Chohan]

Thanks for your help jeff. I'll do just that.

Thanks
Shaz

On 5/13/05, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:56:40PM +0100, Shahzad Chohan wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Can anyone give me some more info regarding the following:
> >
> > On some installations when I issue commands in vi, e.g say
> > ":colorscheme darkblue" and then I close the file, then log back in
> > and try to scroll through the vi history I keep getting "<up>" output
> > instead of my historical commands. Can someone please let me know how
> > to fix this.
> 
> What you have is a "vim" problem, not a "vi" problem.
> Your best place to look for the answers to these questions is not the
> fedora list but the vim community.
> 
> Here:
> http://www.vim.org/docs.php
> 
> Sounds like a key mapping problem.- what you are seeing is vim displaying
> what key it thinks you are pressing, the "up" key.
> 
> Instead of the arrow keys, try using "k" for up, "l" for right, "j" for
> down and "h" for left.  If you still get the same problem, try going
> on IRC at:
> 
> freenode irc.freenode.net #vim very active; web page
> IRCnet   #vim
> 
> 
> > Also is there anyway to tell vi to start with a different
> > default colour scheme, or is there a way to edit the colourschemes.
> Yes and yes.
> 
> run the command "man vim"
> 
> Carefully read the entire page.  Its on that page.
> 
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> Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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