On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, mowestusa wrote:

> I have been googling, and searching the vim
> documentation but I'm just not finding the answers to
> my issues with vim. I'm coming from a Linux background
> where I can do all of the following, but I can't do
> the same in vim on NetBSD. Any help or pointing me to
> vim documentation which is specific to NetBSD would be
> helpful.
>
> I'm running vim 7.0 (binary) in NetBSD 3.0.1 on i386
> without x.
>

Maybe, vim is old-vi compatible mode ?
Did you try the command :set nocompatible ?

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