OT - vi and Linux

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Howard Wolowitz wrote:

> OT but I bet some of you can help.
>
> We switched two of our servers to Linux a couple of months ago and one
> outstanding problem occurs using vi and facetwin scoansi emulation.  In the
> middle of a vi session the colors on the screen change to dark blue on black -
> very hard (actually impossible) to work with.
>
> Our answer is to use mcedit from Mid-Night Commander but (and I can't believe
> I'm about to say this) I miss vi!
>
> Does anyone know what we can do to fix it?

Call Facet tech support?

It's entirely possible that the FacetWin installation doesn't fully
understand SCOANSI, or that the terminfo entry for scoansi, on the Linux
box, is inadequate.

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