[techtalk] problems with VI

[Jenn V.]

"Fan, Laurel" wrote:
> 
> Nicoya Helm, nicoya at birch.net, said:
> > However, the other day I
> > switched from ksh to zsh. Now when I try to repeat past searches,
> > instead of recalling a previous string, up arrow inserts capital
> > A,B,C,D, etc into my document.

> Wild guess here... zsh and ksh have different initialization files,

Possibility: you'd aliased 'vi' to 'vim' and were actually using 
vim, but when you switched shells the alias didn't come with you 
and now you're using vi?


Just a wild-assed guess. :)



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