[ale] vi question

[Avery Ceo]

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.

Avery

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> I guess a recent update to vi has a new functionality that whenever my
> cursor falls on a {[( it automatically shows me the matching one.
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but this has got to be the stupidest
> thing I've ever seen, particularly when you have a goodly number of such
> beasts.
>
> Anyone know how to turn off this bastardization?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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