topic Re: vi editor in Operating System - HP-UX

vi editor

Kiat leong Len — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:40:48 GMT

Question 1:
How can i set vi NOT to wrap the text according to window size?

Question 2:
During editing a file, i press Ctrl-x and this causes vi to jump out to shell
prompt. How can i get back to vi editor?

Thanks and warm regards.

Re: vi editor

user not active — Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:10:01 GMT

In X11 Windows, how do I get vi(1) to display as many lines as will fit into my
window after I have made the window larger than its default size?

Solution

To make vi display as many lines as your window size, you need to use the
following command after changing the size of your window:

eval `resize`

The resize command is documented in the online manual pages under resize(1).

Re: vi editor

Paul Bouchie — Wed, 31 May 2000 15:43:25 GMT

Answer question:

Try typing "exit" at the prompt, this should return you to vi. (don't use the double quotes)

Re: vi editor

Albert E. Whale, CISSP — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:45:03 GMT

I like using the nobeautify command.

You can set this up automatically via the EXINIT command.

Try this in your .profile

EXINIT="set noflash autoindent nobeautify shiftwidth=4"
export EXINIT

For your second question, the other gentleman was correct, use the exit command or CTRL-D.

Hope that helps.