vi don't show indicators on left-bottom of the window

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Werner Schram <wrschram at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris G wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:37:26PM +0800, wang xin wrote:
> >
> >>    i am new to vi, when i input 'i', there is no indicator like '-
> -insert-
> >>    -' to tell me which mode i am in, anyone has advise? Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> > Doesn't vim have this (vim is the default vi clone used by most Linux
> > distributions)?
> >
> > There's certainly an 'insert' indicator in vile, the vi clone I
> > prefer. It puts an 'I' on the status line at the bottom.
> >
> The default in Ubuntu is vim.tiny, which has a subset of the
> functionallity of vim. I think it is made to be fully compatible with
> the original vi, and no more than that. vim.basic in the vim package
> also provides an --insert-- indication at the bottom of the screen.
>
>
There was no such display in vi, and vim in vi-mode does not have it.  If
you're using vim, however, you can look up the docs with ":help showmode"
which discusses when and how this indication can be made visible.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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