Hmmm. Which vi are you using and on what system?
No problems like that with vim 5.7 on either
windows or Linux.
And for the Perl bit, I always do a quick check with
perl -cw to catch syntax errors.
Dunno. It came with Debian 2.2 r0 . It's probably vim or elvis anyway. I just tend to lump them all together as vi since they all act (roughly) the same anyway. The other annoying thing I have noticed is that moving the cursor to the very left of the screen with the cursor keys takes it out of insert mode - very annoying when trying to comment out lines. I haven't noticed it in any other version.
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