OT - vi and Linux

[Howard Wolowitz]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
To: "Howard Wolowitz" <howiewz at aljex.com>
Cc: "filePro List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: OT - vi and Linux


> 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"

Wow!  Thanks Joe - that worked!

I have no idea what it means though - could you elaborate?

Howie