OT - vi and Linux

[Joe Chasan]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:43:32AM -0400, 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Howie 

bugs the heck out of me.  same with ls command.
probably the correct way to do it is to make your own terminfo/termcap
entry using the scoansi stuff as source.

something you can try, though, is in your .exrc (vi startup file)
put ":set t_Co=0"
 
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