On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:43 -0700, Byron Clark wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > > A negative side effect of the new console resolution is that vi will > > NOT run. It errors out on start complaining about the text mode size > > being too big. Vim and mc handle the resolution without any problem. > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15844 Most simple fix at this moment: pacman -R vi; pacman -S vim; ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi I hate the basic vi package, but that's because I'm used to the way vim works with all its features not present in ex-vi or nvi.