[CentOS] Semi-OT: very weird vi behaviour

[Vanhorn, Mike]

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.

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