This is the return I get when I cd $HOME and list the items.
ls -la
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 laura other 512 Apr 11 09:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Apr 9 16:59 ..
-rw------- 1 laura other 276 Apr 16 22:30 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 laura other 144 Apr 9 16:59 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 laura other 136 Apr 9 16:59 local.cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 laura other 157 Apr 9 16:59 local.login
-rw-r--r-- 1 laura other 174 Apr 9 16:59 local.profile
That's interesting. Assuming that's all the files ls found, there are no vi config files in your HOME directory. So bad config file is apparently not the explanation.
Does vi work for any other users on your system? Is there a sysadmin who maybe set up something "different" about how vi runs?
Try to figure out exactly what is happening when you enter the "vi" command. For example (results will be different on your system):
Post what the file command says when you track down what is being run. In my case, it's an executable program. In your case, who knows? My suspicion is it might be a shell script.
If vi is aliased to anything, you can short-circuit that by running it with it's full path, i.e. /usr/bin/vi. It may not be exactly that on your system, which vi to find it.
Also, try vim instead of vi, on many systems vi is just a link or script running vim (one which may be misbehaving on your system for some reason)
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