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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: telix bugs
Keywords: Telix, scripts
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.160404.17787@uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 Mar 90 16:04:04 GMT
References: <542@fwi.uva.nl>
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <542@fwi.uva.nl> linden@natasha.fwi.uva.nl (Onno van der Linden) writes:
> Someone recently wrote that setting destructive backspace to OFF in the Telix
>terminal setup menu would allow vi to work properly and not mess up the
>characters on the line when going left with the cursor.
> He was right,BUT,although I had saved the setup and destbs=off appeared in
>telix.cnf,when I entered the terminal setup menu after executing telix again,
>the destructive backspace was ON.
> Then I remembered de telix bugs file I had deleted a couple of weeks ago.As
... rest deleted ...

This problem can be best resolved by writing a simple Telix script
that makes the switch and execute it at runtime (alt-g).  The key
variables for the script are
  _swap_bs = 1;
  _dest_bs = 0;
Experiment a bit, and you will get it right.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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