[arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before --what is it?

[Andrei Thorp]

Sounds good.

-AT

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei Thorp wrote:
>> Erk,
>>
>> I'm always a bit iffy on editing system-wide configurations. If the
>> package is updated, pacman won't update the edited configuration file
>> (and start spawing .pacnew files), right? I also just don't like
>> keeping configurations outside of home if at all possible.
>>
>> Does the current Arch VI respect .virc in your home dir? If so, put
>> "set nohlsearch" in your .virc file instead. That just turns it off
>> regardless of whether the system-wide one turns it on or not.
>>
>> Also, I would like to kindly suggest that you consider using full VIM
>> instead of VI. It has a lot more features and is often much nicer to
>> work with.
>>
>> Sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know and don't need to hear again :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Andrei Thorp
>>
>
> Thanks Andrei,
>
>        It doesn't matter how basic it is, never, ever underestimate my ability to
> either overlook it or have forgotten it ;-) On the system wide issue, If I can
> get a good config I like, that's generally my preference. That way when a user
> has a questions about X, I know what he is looking at and how whatever it is is
> configured. (my users are my family, kids and the office staff -- not too many,
> but anything helps)
>
>        So far /etc/virc seems to be doing the job. I'll add my dark color scheme to
> ~/.virc and see if that works, but if /etc/virc will take care of the basic
> stuff, then I'm good!
>
>        From reading the man page, pacman handles updates of config files in the same
> way rpm does, so that works fine for me.
>
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