Subject: Re: VIM Colors
From: Kurt Roeckx <[email-masked]>
To: Li-Kai Liu <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:45:38 +0200

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:34:32PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote:
> >
> >It's not broken.  There's just no default vimrc file as in the 5.x
> >release.  Add `syntax on' to your $HOME/.vimrc file.
> >
> also there is a bunch of other behavioral changes "without default vimrc 
> file" ... including the weird escaping from insert mode and weird 
> backspace behavior (it won't delete beyond the insert point). so i added 
> the following lines in my $HOME/.vimrc to get back to work as quickly as 
> possible.

Both are normal behaviour of vi.  You need to escape from insert
mode before you can move around, and while in insert mode you can
only remove what you added.  It are extentions from vim, and alot
of other clones, that do allow you to do that.

Kurt

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