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From: gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: Another bug in vi ?
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Date: 7 Oct 90 03:09:11 GMT
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In article <1990Oct3.150431.19010@cbnews.att.com> smk@cbnews.att.com (Stephen M. Kennedy) writes:
>In article <896@pcsbst.pcs.com>, wd@samsa.pcs.com (wd) writes:
 
>> 	:map! #a foo
>> and type "#a" while in insert mode, my version of vi appends some
>> garbage after inserting "foo" 

>Believe it or not, this is a vi (mis?)feature.  A lhs of '#a' means
>function key 'a' to vi.

Under SunOs 4.0, there is not a problem.  Perhaps the error is related
to Sys V.

David Gast
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