On Wednesday 04 November 2009 15:50:02 Jan de Groot wrote: > 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. > I always do this to begin with, but it was a brand new install so I hadn't got to the point of installing vim ( but I did -- real quick -- once I hit the vi bug :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
