On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:17:55PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox.
>> Most of the header lines were blinking at me.
>> What's going on?
>> How do I make it stop?
>> If I find the inventor of blinking text,
>> how slowly should I kill him?
>>
>
> You have to go back to before the invention of the VT-100 terminal
> to discover the inventor of blinking text.
Is he still dead?
> I think the issue is the alias for vi
> $ alias vi
> alias vi='vim'
Yup.
I don't have a real vi.
....
> # alias vi
> -bash: alias: vi: not found
> # which vi
.....
Turning off blinking generally would be a good thing.
If I went through all the vim syntax files and removed all
the blinks and use_blinks, would that do the trick for gvim?
It might be quicker to edit the terminal info file.
Last I checked terminfo hints can be local to your
account as specified by environment variables.
look at the man page for tic (terminfo compiler) and friends.
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