[lug] command line editing in vi

[Hugh Brown]

I am an intermediate user.  I use elm as my mailer.  I'm just tired of all
the cruft that redhat uses that seems to break the way that I use vi.

I am aware of using Esc to go to command mode.  I am wondering what
happened to the ex (Esc :) command history that I had under RH 6.2.  I also used to be
able to do ^V to force literal interpretration of keystrokes.

I don't know where to go looking for the problems and I am being a little
lazy.  I was hoping that someone knew already or could point me in the
right direction.

Hugh


"Dhruva Reddy"
> 
> I never could figure out how to get vi to do this, or
> why it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't.
> 
> I don't know how well versed you are in vi, but 'k'
> moves up one line and 'j' moves down one line (you of
> course need to go into command mode first by hitting
> esc)
> 
> --- Hugh Brown <hugh at vecna.com> wrote:
> > I am using vim on rh 7.1.  When I go to the command
> > line mode and type an
> > up arrow to try and go to the previous command, I
> > get <Up> instead of the
> > previous command.
> > 
> > Anyone know what gives or what I need to change?
> > 
> > Hugh