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From: stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi--backspace past beg-of-line
Message-ID: <21933@.la.locus.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 05:59:05 GMT
References: <1012@TALOS.UUCP> <1991Feb11.211456.16556@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <fletcher@dce.ie>
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
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Thanks, Jerry, et. al., but what I meant to ask for was to have the
backspace actually work past the beginning of the line.  In hopes of
being clear as an unmuddied lake, here's a gratuitous illustration.

1--press i and type 1.3 lines of text
This is a bunch of text that I've been typing just as an example and it
seems to go on and on	
=cursor here>        ^

2--backspace to "example"... 

This is a bunch of text that I've been typing just as an example
=cursor here>                                                   ^

3--type what I should have typed

This is a bunch of text that I've been typing just as an example.  Having
the sentence end there is much better.  La la la
=cursor here>                                   ^

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-Steve A. Anderson         I do not speak officially for Locus or IBM, just me.
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