OT - vi and Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006, Joe Chasan wrote:
>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.

If you're using a shell that supports aliases (bash, ksh, ...)

	alias ls='/bin/ls --color=none'

>probably the correct way to do it is to make your own terminfo/termcap
>entry using the scoansi stuff as source.

Personally I do everything in xterms with TERM=xterm.

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

That's a new one on me.  I've only been using ``vi(m)'' for 24
years, and still learn new things about it freqently.

Bill
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