[lug] Few vi problems

[Atkinson, Chip]

I believe that the newer versions of vim default to vi compatible mode which
may imply that it won't pick up the .vimrc.  I have always used .exrc and it
was found pretty easily.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:27 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Few vi problems
> 
> 
> John Starkey wrote:
> > 
> > Can someone help with this? I've looked through every vi 
> manual I could
> > find online and in :h
> > 
> > I need to yank x chars from some code. yw isn't gonna work 
> because of
> > the chars. Optimally I'd like to be able to grab:
> > 
> > <td bgcolor=" <.?php $bgcolor ?> ">
> >                        ^                            ^
> > The spaces between the carrots is what i need to yank and paste.
> > 
> > The next question: I'm on a remote FreeBSD virtual server. 
> I've tried
> > every .* file I could think of (.vimrc, .virc, .exrc) and 
> couldn't get
> > it to load in my vimrc. Is there a way to specify the rc 
> file path in
> > vi? And on a related note, is there a way to specify the syntax file
> > path?
> 
> vi and clones are derivatives of ex. Try whatever commands 
> you are using
> in "~/.exrc".
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John
> >
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