OT - vi and Linux

[Howard Wolowitz]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Howard Wolowitz" <howiewz at aljex.com>
Cc: "filePro List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: OT - vi and Linux


> 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.
>
> --
> KenBrody at BestWeb dot net        spamtrap: <g8ymh8uf001 at sneakemail.com>

Thanks Ken,

I just tried it and it didn't help.  I think Bob is right - it's a facewin 
problem.  When it happens and I exit vi the command prompt has the same bad 
colors too and I have to into p and than out to restore them.

I tried the easy way out by asking this list but I guess I'll have to talk 
to facewin themselves.

Howie