[ale] vi question

[Geoffrey]

Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:38, 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?
> 
> set noshowmatch

Okay, so something is definitely broken here.  I actually went to the : 
command in vi and 'set noshowmatch' and it still does it.  Bug???


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Until later, Geoffrey

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