On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:17:55PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > >> 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. > > Is he still dead? > >> I think the issue is the alias for vi >> $ alias vi >> alias vi='vim' > > Yup. > I don't have a real vi. .... >> # alias vi >> -bash: alias: vi: not found >> # which vi ..... > Turning off blinking generally would be a good thing. > If I went through all the vim syntax files and removed all > the blinks and use_blinks, would that do the trick for gvim? It might be quicker to edit the terminal info file. Last I checked terminfo hints can be local to your account as specified by environment variables. look at the man page for tic (terminfo compiler) and friends. -- 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
