vi query

micheal sundance at sundanceloki.com
Wed May 11 01:37:31 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 16:03 +0100, Shahzad Chohan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On some installations when I issue commands in vi, e.g say
> ":colorscheme darkblue" and then I close the file, then log back in
> and try to scroll through the vi history I keep getting "<up>" output
> instead of my historical commands. Can someone please let me know how
> to fix this. Also is there anyway to tell vi to start with a different
> default colour scheme, or is there a way to edit the colourschemes.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Shaz
> 

Check the .vimrc file in the users home directory. This contains the
configuration settings for vi for that user. There may be a strange
keybinding set there. 

MC




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