OT - vi and Linux

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Howard Wolowitz (Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:43:32 -0400):

> 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?

On my copy of vim, typing ":set syntax=off" turns off color coding,
and everything reverts to white on black.  This can probably be put
in the appropriate .rc file to make it permanent.

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