Hello,

I have a strange problem: vi doesn't seem to be even attempting to read from
$HOME/.nexrc or $HOME/.exrc as the man page suggests it should. Looking in the
ktrace output at the files it attempts to open I see this:

 565 vi       NAMI  "/etc/ld.so.conf"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libcurses.so.5"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libcurses.so.5"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libcurses.so.5"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libc.so.12"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libc.so.12"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/lib/libc.so.12"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/etc/malloc.conf"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/home/johng/.termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/home/johng/.termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/home/johng/.termcap"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/share/misc/termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/share/misc/termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "./"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp/"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp//bt.00565a"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp//bt.00565a"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/etc/vi.exrc"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp/vi.00565b"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.00565c"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.00565c"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp/vi.00565b"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.00565c"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp/"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp//bt.00565d"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp//bt.00565d"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/home/johng/.termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/home/johng/.termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/home/johng/.termcap"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/share/misc/termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/usr/share/misc/termcap.db"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/tmp/vi.00565b"
   565 vi       NAMI  "/var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.00565c"

Notice it attempts to read the global settings in /etc/vi.exrc but not my own
ones. I searched a little, and have seen people report similar problems in the
past, though I also found a ktrace output that clearly showed the attempt at
opening these files being made.

I am running a pretty much vanilla 1.6 i386 install (even down to the GENERIC
kernel off the release CD). The vi I am running is the standard one as far as I
know. Info as follows:

-r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  269908 Sep  8  2002 /usr/bin/vi
SHA1 (/usr/bin/vi) = 8dd55ab9aeb94ff88dbcb97d0b0e097994e0a862
MD5 (/usr/bin/vi) = 04dd40da30f1ad63612806a18af4ea05

Any ideas? Not a big deal as I can probably put the settings I need in the
global file, but seems a little odd that the local ones don't work.

Rgds,
John...


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