[KLUG Members] Waaaaa it's different and I want my old redhat behavior back

[John Bridleman]

* Dirk Hamsun Bartley wrote:
> 1)  default color behavior after vi determines what file type I am
> opening is gone.  Open a c file and black and white text.  Ugggg.  Open
> a perl file and black and white text.  Double ugggg.  How is an addicted
> color user supposed to handle this?  I picked the wrong week to stop
> sniffing glue.
> 
> 2)  backspace not working.  What????  How can any vi implementation
> remove the functionality of backspace.  I am sooooo confused here.  My
> eyes must be deceiving me.  Well, tried again and it sure does not
> work.  Just keeps a beepin' at me.  Whyyyyyy??? Waaaaa!!!

To fix these problems I created a .vimrc file with the following:
set backspace=indent,eol,start
syntax enable
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