[SATLUG] vi bug in Ubuntu

[Al Castanoli]

Good thing there's no confusion like this with emacs and xemacs.

(ducks, runs for cover)

Al Castanoli

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 16:10 -0500, Daniel J.Givens wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:31:41 -0500, twistedpickles
> <twistedpickles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I use vi as my primary editor but when I made the switch to Ubuntu using
> vi
> > was a pain in the arse.
> > Navigating with the arrow keys when using vi would introduce and place
> > different letters of the alphabet in the document.
> > 
> > fix:
> > sudo apt-get install vi-full
> 
> That's a misleading title. There is no bug in its functionality. It's not
> configured to function the way you're used to and has functionality missing
> with the default install. Don't call it bugged if it's not.
> 
> About vim-tiny, the default version installed...
> 
> "This package contains a minimal version of vim compiled with no GUI and a
> small subset of features in order to keep small the package size. This
> package does not depend on the vim-runtime package, but installing it you
> will get its additional benefits (online documentation, plugins, ...)."
> Source: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/editors/vim-tiny
> 
> By the way, you got the package name "vi-full" wrong, it's "vim-full". You
> could have just installed the package "vim-runtime" or metapackage "vim" to
> get the behavior you were looking for.
> 
> About vim-runtime...
> 
> "This package contains the architecture independent runtime files, used, if
> available, by all vim variants available in Debian. Example of such runtime
> files are: online documentation, rules for language-specific syntax
> highlighting and indentation, color schemes, and standard plugins."
> Source: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/editors/vim-runtime
> 
> If you wanted GVim, the GUI version of vim, you would probably want to
> install it with the vim-full metapackage. If you're on a system that you
> don't want X on, you don't want to install vim-full because it has a bunch
> of Gnome and other X specific dependencies.
> 
> Daniel
>