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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Vi Editor Post 302595099 by dat789 on Thursday 2nd of February 2012 05:42:47 AM
Old 02-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sudip_Felipemas
I have recently installed ubuntu 11.10 version in my laptop. Please tell me how to use the vi editor. Because the vi editor in ubuntu is totally different from the vi editor we have in Mandriva or Sabayon. Why am i not able to use backspace or the cursor movement keys(up, down, left, right) properly? Why on pressing the cursor movements we get A, C printed on the screen.......... instead of just cursor movements. Do i need to install any packages using the command? :
Code:
sudo apt-get install <packages>

Please let me know about the same.
One quick fix is to enter the following command within vi
:set nocompatible

It'd be the same way you'd quit vi, but instead of :q type the above.

This way you'd have to type that every time you want to use vi. I'm not sure yet how to 'automate' this. If anyone here can shed some light on this area please do so. Thanks a lot!
 

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SVK::Editor::XD(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					SVK::Editor::XD(3)

NAME
SVK::Editor::XD - An editor for modifying svk checkout copies SYNOPSIS
$editor = SVK::Editor::XD->new ( path => $path, target => $target, oldroot => $fs->revision_root ($fromrev), newroot => $fs->revision_root ($torev), xd => $xd, get_copath => sub { ... }, get_path => sub { ... }, ); DESCRIPTION
SVK::Editor::XD modifies existing checkout copies at the paths translated by the get_copath callback, according to the incoming editor calls. The path in the depot is translated with the get_path callback. There are two modes, one is for applying changes to checkout copy as external modification, like merging changes. The other is update mode, which is used for bringing changes from depot to checkout copies. PARAMETERS
In addition to the paramters to SVK::Editor::Checkout: target The target path of the editor calls. Used for deciding if the root's meta data needs to be updated in update mode. xd SVK::XD object. oldroot Old root before the editor calls. newroot New root after the editor calls. update Working in update mode. get_path A callback to translate paths in editor calls to path in depot. ignore_keywords Don't do keyword translations (svn:keywords property). perl v5.10.0 2008-08-04 SVK::Editor::XD(3)
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