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Re: [tlug] Re: Gotta Learn Vi: Not So Basic Stuff



On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:14:46PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:20:04AM +0900, Ian Heafer wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried :set showmode?  Its always been set in every version of vim
> > I've used, but I've had to turn it on when I've used nvi.
> > 
> Hrrm, it doesn't work on FreeBSD's nvi.  It doesn't give me an error,
> but there's no indication of what mode I'm using. 
> 
I can't comment on FreeBSD but I can confirm that it works on nvi on
Debian and in vim on arch.  The O'Reilly vi book says that that command
should work on most implementations of vi.

Ian



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