[web-team]Re: [Officers] vi

[Heather]

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Heather wrote:
> 
> > 'tweren't me.  Thanks for the warning tho.  btw, what sort of "doesn't work"
> > does it do?
> 
> It works... it's just set to be some odd version of vi:
> 
> % ls -l /usr/bin/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jan 31 02:20 /usr/bin/vi ->
> /etc/alternatives/vi
> 
> It color codes everything and has some strange behaviors.  For instance
> the middle-mouse-paste actually copies the last thing you cut with
> dw/dd/x.  (For instance, I used dw to delete the speaker's name.  Then I
> highlighted the new speaker in my email and used middle-mouse-button to
> paste it in.  What it pastes is the old speaker's name.  Very
> irritating.)  After fighting with the damned thing, I finally just scp'd
> the file to my box, edited and scp'd it back.

Oh. whew.  I'm not gonna be mousing it across ssh anytime soon.  Just so
long as it follows the expectable key commands I'm happy.  I'll be a bit 
tee'd if it doesn't have multiple paste buffers though.

/etc/alternatives?  isn't that a debian-ism?  I thought VA uses redhat 
derivates... (I'm not complaining, just curious.) 

> My suspisions say it was Mr. Merlin!
> --Ames

Hmm, we could get into a side discussion of how to tell who last logged in
as root.  rathole alert ;P

* Heather