From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11 i586) vi used to accept parameter -o2 producing two windows split horizontally. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. vi -o2 a b Actual Results: # vi -o2 a b VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0v ALPHA (2001 Feb 11, compiled Feb 20 2001 14:27:13) Unknown option: "-o2" More info with: "vim -h" Expected Results: It should open a horizontally split window for files a and b, no ?
vim-minimal doesn't and isn't supposed to handle -o2. Install vim-enhanced. If /bin is in your path before /usr/bin, you may also want to echo 'alias vi=vim' >>~/.bashrc