[Gllug] Vim

Jackson, Harry HJackson at colt-telecom.com
Tue Feb 19 13:52:58 UTC 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tet at accucard.com [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
> 
> Genuine vi only has one level of undo. Versions of vi that people
> actually *use* (vim, nvi, xvi etc.) all have multiple undo levels.
> 
> Anyway, in answer to the origianl question, ":set nocompatible" will
> achieve what you're after. Remove the colon and put it in your
> $HOME/.vimrc to make it permanent.

I was assuming that because I was running gvim and vim that nocompatible was
set. I have put the option in the vimrc file and all is now well. Now that I
need a txt editor on a daily basis I thought it prudent to get this feature
working asap.

Harry


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