G'day saunite,

Welcome to the monastery.

What you're describing is the normal behaviour for vi (vim, etc.).

There's lots of vi tutorials online. Searching for vi tutorial, the first one I found (http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/vi/vi-in-10-1.html) has:

$ vi myfile.txt

Your file will be loaded into vi, and the cursor will be placed at the beginning of the first line. Note that an empty line is shown as a tilde (~).

In the past, I have set up vi (and a number of other commands) on *nix boxes to start in a new window. I suspect this is what's happening on your Linux machine. There's a number of ways to do this: check with your system administrator for details of how that's achieved on your system.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Using Expect and interact with vi by kcott
in thread Using Expect and interact with vi by saunite

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