VI editor in Gnome Terminal leaves text remnants on scroll

[Neil Bird]

Around about 27/03/06 12:36, Khoa Ton typed ...
> The workaround here would be to set an alias in root's .bashrc
> file to use /usr/bin/vim when vi is called.  As far as I know,
> vim is more secure than vi and should be safer to run as root.

   Actually, /bin/vi *is* vim, just compiled up without lots of stuff (mouse, 
plugins, etc.) that might cause problems/security issues when run as root, 
esp. in recovery mode.

   It's highly unlikely (although not impossible!) that vim is the issue.

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[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil at fnx ~]# exit