[ale] vi question

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 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.

I simply unaliased vi... :(

> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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