vi and vim

[Wade Turland <wturland@cit.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

Hi

I recently installed OpenBSD on some DecStation 5000/20s using VRM-17
monitors and found that the terminals were incapable of scrolling. This
caused no end of confusion with vi and man pages. I spent about a week
tearing my hair out trying to resolve terminfo/termcap stuff to get a nice
usable console.

In the end, the modes I found worked best are using the TERM=cons50, to
which I changed it in root's .login to set lines to 51. (Not a real fix, I
know). But vi was still stuffing up, so I compiled vim 5.3, and guess what?
It works properly with the console.

My question is this: Why do we continue to use a generic vi when there is a
superior product like vim available? Perhaps we could change it to be
standard in the OpenBSD distribution - at least for pmax chips.

Thanks for making a cool OS.

Wade.

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