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#1 2009-09-30 08:36:25

zer0s
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Registered: 2009-09-30
Posts: 2

Vi broken after update

Hello,

Recently after updating pacman and doing a 

sudo pacman -Syu

I realized my vi editor was broken. To be specific the commands no longer show up at the bottom and I am unable to exit without saving. For example, when I press a, the editor doesn't enter append mode... it simply types an a. Also when I press escape to try and return to command mode the terminal just flashes. I have tried removing the package and reinstalling including 

sudo pacman -R -s - n -u vi

just to make sure it wasn't a bad config file or something. I also have tried removing the usr/bin/rview directory before reinstalling and I have also tried updating the licenses package. All to no avail.

Please if anyone else is experiencing this or knows how to fix this I would be very grateful.

Thanks

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#2 2009-09-30 08:46:48

shining
Pacman Developer
Registered: 2006-05-10
Posts: 2,043

Re: Vi broken after update

pacman -R vi
pacman -S vim

problem solved

pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

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#3 2009-09-30 08:47:45

Allan
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From: Brisbane, AU
Registered: 2007-06-09
Posts: 11,385
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Re: Vi broken after update

vi is now an actual vi clone (ex/vi) and not a light vim like it used to be.  You probably want to use the current vim package.

Edit - shining was much faster tongue

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#5 2009-09-30 17:11:39

zer0s
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Registered: 2009-09-30
Posts: 2

Re: Vi broken after update

Thanks for the quick replies guys. I have now installed vim and my life is again complete.

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