On Wed, April 27, 2016 8:39 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > This is weird. As in, *deeply* weird. > > I ssh as root from one box to another (there are keys involved), and I go > to vi a file, such as > # line 1 # > # line 2 # > # line 3 > # line 4 > > And what I see in vi is > # line 3 > # line 4 > > BUT, if I scroll the cursor over each line with the arrow key... I see all > four lines. I've also looked at another file, and same thing. Just checked > it out on the server I ssh'd in from, and no problem. 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, I can not reproduce it. I ssh (with the key) from FrraBSD 9.3 box (from either /bin/sh Bourne shell or /usr/local/bin/bash Bourne again shell) to centos 5 (fully updated, bash shell), and my vi does behave as expected, it is: which vi /bin/vi vi -V ~ ~ VIM - Vi IMproved ~ ~ version 7.0.237 ~ by Bram Moolenaar et al. ~ Vim is open source and freely distributable I guess we need more detail about what you have. Here is the file I open with vi: cosmo ~]# cat test # line 1 # # line 2 # # line 3 # line 4 Here is what I see when I open it with vi: cosmo ~]# vi test # line 1 # # line 2 # # line 3 # line 4 ~ Valeri > mark > > file > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++