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From: beal@paladin.Owego.NY.US (Alan Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Editing within mail under AIX 3.1 (and AIX 1.1)
Summary: AIX 1.1 has this problem too
Keywords: Give full path to editor
Message-ID: <559@paladin.Owego.NY.US>
Date: 3 Aug 90 01:19:41 GMT
References: <32328@cup.portal.com> <2983@awdprime.UUCP>
Organization: The Design Committee
Lines: 23

In article <2983@awdprime.UUCP>, ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
> I just tried it on my system, and it seems that it does not try to
> resolve vi's location based on PATH and only works when you give the
> complete path for vi in your VISUAL declaration, i.e.
> 
> VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi;export VISUAL
> 
> At least, this works fine with me in 9021 (GOLD).

Same problem occurs on AIX 1.1 on a PS/2.  If you set VISUAL to
/usr/bin/vi, ~v will work properly.

A different problem I am having is when I try to backspace while typing
the Subject line.  The backspace is not echoed properly, that is, the
cursor stays in the same position although the text is properly erased 
when viewing the message with ~p.  Doing a ~s works OK.  This happens 
when I dial in and is apparently not a problem for someone at the
console.  Perhaps, it has something to do with my stty settings??  This
occurs on AIX 1.1 on a PS/2 70.
-- 
Alan Beal
Internet: beal@paladin.Owego.NY.US
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