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Author: Don Calfa
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: vi help
Bart Garst wrote:
>>I'm pretty comforatble with vi but there is one thing that really bugs me.
>>
>>Sometimes I get fat fingers and entire word will become inverted and I
>>can't for the life of me find out how to undo it. 'u' isn't it and it's
>>something with SHIFT 3 because that's where my fingers are when
>>it happens.
>>
>>Now I can't read 'echo'. It's just a black rectangle.
>
>
>
> If you type (not in insert mode) a forward slash and then some characters,
> vi will search for those characters and highlight them.
>
> Could you have accidentally hit the slash and the highlight is making it
> look like a black box?
>
> If so try searching for some bogus string. That will remove the
> box/highlight.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> If anyone knows a better way of correcting this, please speak up.
>
> Bart
>
> ---------------------------------------------------


That was it! Thanks :-)


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