in reply to Using Expect and interact with vi

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

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Re: Using Expect and interact with vi
by saunite (Initiate) on Sep 14, 2012 at 21:15 UTC

    Thanks!

    I solved my issue by changing:

    my $conn_command = "ssh -l $user -p 22 $ip";
my $ct = Expect->spawn($conn_command) or die "Cannot spawn $conn_comma
+nd: $!\n";

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    to: 
    my $ct = new Expect;
$ct->slave->clone_winsize_from(\*STDIN);
$ct->spawn($conn_command) or die "Cannot spawn $conn_command: $!\n";

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    Thanks all for the help.

    André Saunite

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