On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox. > Most of the header lines were blinking at me. > What's going on? > How do I make it stop? > If I find the inventor of blinking text, > how slowly should I kill him? > You have to go back to before the invention of the VT-100 terminal to discover the inventor of blinking text. I think the issue is the alias for vi $ alias vi alias vi='vim' $ su - # alias vi -bash: alias: vi: not found # which vi /bin/vi Vim is a smarter version of vi and has syntax driven display atributes. It will color text as per the terminfo file and your preferences. Since I do not see blinking look at the terminal window you have and tell us which one you are using i.e. help --> about It may be as simple as using "Terminal" in contrast to "Gnome Terminal"... Or better yet use gvim and click Syntax-->Off; in vim you should be able to ":syn off" as well. See my first google hit: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/disable-syntax-highlighting-in-vim/ and also the obvious vim home site stuff: http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
