Anyone know what would cause elvis to give the phrase
"no previous char search" when trying to exit or write changes to
a file? I don't know what all was done during the session other
than the changes to the file can not be written and ":q!" doesn't
close it either. As soon as you hit the colon ":" to write or
quit it gives the phrase mentioned above.

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David wrote:
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| Anyone know what would cause elvis to give the phrase
| "no previous char search" when trying to exit or write changes to a
| file? I don't know what all was done during the session other than the
| changes to the file can not be written and ":q!" doesn't close it
| either. As soon as you hit the colon ":" to write or quit it gives the
| phrase mentioned above.
|

It happened to me before, I just upgrade the elvis to the latest, now
i'm using elvis-2.1_4-i386-1.

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Wong Kum Weng wrote:
>
> It happened to me before, I just upgrade the elvis to the latest, now
> i'm using elvis-2.1_4-i386-1.

Thanks for the idea but it didn't change anything. It still gives
the phrase "no previous char search" when pressing the ":" colon.

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David wrote:
> Wong Kum Weng wrote:
>>
>> It happened to me before, I just upgrade the elvis to the latest, now
>> i'm using elvis-2.1_4-i386-1.
>
> Thanks for the idea but it didn't change anything. It still gives the
> phrase "no previous char search" when pressing the ":" colon.
>

I have even uninstalled both elvis and vim then reinstalled them
but nothing has changed. I still get the phrase mentioned above.
In fact I get the same phrase in both elvis and vim which really
has me puzzled as the system hasn't had any configuration changes
made to it in a long time.

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David wrote
in news:e2_fc.146373$gA5.1785662@attbi_s03 on 16.04.2004:

> David wrote:
> > Wong Kum Weng wrote:
> >>
> >> It happened to me before, I just upgrade the elvis to the latest, now
> >> i'm using elvis-2.1_4-i386-1.
> >
> > Thanks for the idea but it didn't change anything. It still gives the
> > phrase "no previous char search" when pressing the ":" colon.
> >
>
> I have even uninstalled both elvis and vim then reinstalled them
> but nothing has changed. I still get the phrase mentioned above.
> In fact I get the same phrase in both elvis and vim which really
> has me puzzled as the system hasn't had any configuration changes
> made to it in a long time.
>

Shot in the dark here, Do you have ~/.elvis? Why not copy the files from
/usr/share/elvis. You know the .arf, .brf, stuff.
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:46:06 GMT, raf
<me9@privacy.net> appears to have said:

> David wrote
> in news:e2_fc.146373$gA5.1785662@attbi_s03 on 16.04.2004:
>
>> In fact I get the same phrase in both elvis and vim which really
>> has me puzzled as the system hasn't had any configuration changes
>> made to it in a long time.
>>
>
> Shot in the dark here, Do you have ~/.elvis? Why not copy the files from
> /usr/share/elvis. You know the .arf, .brf, stuff.

Given the fact that the problem is occurring with *both* elvis and vim,
I would suspect the ~/.exrc file. I had trouble with that the first
time I tried using both elvis and vim on the same system. They both
wanted to use the same ~/.exrc file. Try moving it out of the way and
starting elvis/vim.

If that works you could try modifying the lines of elvis.ini
(make a copy in /etc/elvis rather than modify the original)
where ~/.exrc is sourced. Just change ~/.exrc to ~/.elvisrc or
something... and rename the file in your home dir accordingly.
Then elvis would use ~/.elvisrc and vim would use ~/.exrc and
everybody would be happy.

If that's not it... try running elvis -V to get a verbose startup.
Maybe something in the output will tip you off to the problem.
(more "V's" yields more verbose output)

HTH,
Jonathan

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David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote:
> In fact I get the same phrase in both elvis and vim which really
> has me puzzled as the system hasn't had any configuration changes
> made to it in a long time.

Look at your .exrc file. You might have remapped the : key in that.
As far as I know that is just about the only init file elvis and vim
share (as it's the origibal ex/vi one).
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