[Novalug] vi problem

[Sean McGowan]

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 16:59 -0500, Charles M Howe wrote:
> List,
> 
> I got Karmic installed at the installfest at GWU Wednesday night and am
> having a few problems. Here's a bad one.
> 
> vi misbehaves. At the command line I do
> 
>   vi all-accounts
> 
> all-accounts comes up but editing is impossible. I can do ctrl-f to get
> to where I want to be but when I do i to put myself in edit mode.
So I assume this means that you go have moved the cursor to the desired
location and hit 'i' to insert?

>  But it
> doesn't act write.
I'm guessing that you intended to use the homophone 'right'?  What does
happen?  Have you tried hitting esc a couple times to verify that you
are in command mode before hitting 'i' again?

>  A word beginning with i is supposed to appear (I'm
> having a senior moment -- don't recall what it is) but I can't edit. The
> only way to get out of the mess is to close the window.
What is the 'mess'? Is there anything happening at all?
> 

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