[ale] vi question

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:51, Avery Ceo <avery.ceo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your distribution probably aliases 'vi' to 'vim'.  Try adding "set
> noshowmatch" in ~/.vimrc and see if that fixes it.  It isn't a new feature,
> probably a change in the default settings for your distro.

That does not solve the issue in Ubuntu Karmic.  I wish it did.  I
also tried explicitly setting it in /etc/vim/vimrc, but that failed
to.   vim say's it's a valid command, but it has no affect on curly
braces. :-( Grrrr.

-Jim P.