> Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 13:43:00 +0000 > From: "Vanhorn, Mike" <michael.vanhorn at wright.edu> > > On 4/27/16, 9:39 AM, "centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of > m.roth at 5-cent.us" <centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of > m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> And now, I just >> ssh'd in from another windows, same way... and the weirdness isn't >> there. >> >> Anyone have any clues as to what's going on with that one session? >> >> Mark > > It sounds as if, for some reason, in that one session, vi doesn’t > know what your terminal settings are, so it’s in line editing > mode (like ed or ex). I don’t have an explanation as to why it > would only happen with that one session, though. > Or your "colors" could be set oddly in that terminal window/vi session. Unfortunately you are giving almost no details - OSs (original and target machine), shells, terminal settings, etc., so it's hard to do more than jump to potentially rash conclusions.