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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers vi/vim insert behaviors Post 302332235 by pludi on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 12:10:51 PM
Old 07-08-2009
Define "acts different". If you mean the backspace behavior, enter this in your .vimrc or in vim's command line:
Code:
set nocompatible
set bs=2

The first disables the vi compatibility mode, the second allows backspacing over everything (for more info look at the :help for those settings)
 

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VIMTUTOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       VIMTUTOR(1)

NAME
vimtutor - the Vim tutor SYNOPSIS
vimtutor [-g] [language] DESCRIPTION
Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor. It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file. The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands. The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is not found. The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es". If the [language] argument is missing, the lan- guage of the current locale will be used. If a tutor in this language is available, it will be used. Otherwise the English version will be used. Vim is always started in Vi compatible mode. FILES
/usr/share/vim/vim73/tutor/tutor[.language] The Vimtutor text file(s). /usr/share/vim/vim73/tutor/tutor.vim The Vim script used to copy the Vimtutor text file. AUTHOR
The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado School of Mines using ideas supplied by Charles Smith, Colorado State University. E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu. It was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar. For the names of the translators see the tutor files. SEE ALSO
vim(1) 2001 April 2 VIMTUTOR(1)
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