Re: How to get vi to delete characters
"Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:10:34AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> That sounds like either you're using a strange terminal, or a
>> less-capable vi clone, or both. Debian doesn't tend to give you strange
>> terminals (log in to other Unixes from Debian, though, and you'll find
>> plenty; I've never bothered digging deep enough to find out which), so I
>> suspect you're trying things which only work in certain vi clones.
>
>You, of course, realize that the nvi program used by Debian does behave
>in the annoying ways of the original Vi.
Yup. I rather wish vim would become the Priority: important or Priority:
standard vi; without the runtime files, it's not really significantly
larger than nvi. I'm pretty sure it's been argued out on debian-devel
before, though.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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