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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.unix
Subject: Re: vi, mac, unix
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 15:21:33 EDT
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In article <1066@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> saunders@batcomputer.UUCP (kevin eric saunders) writes:
>>
>>I have NEVER had ANY experience with vi removing text and doing the
>>wierd things that the previous posters have stated, even when I was a
>>beginner with vi. 
>
>Methinks the folks complaining probably had a mismatch between their 
>TERM setting and their terminal, or a corrupted termcap entry.  This 
>can result in some *very* confusing screen displays.  The file, of 
>course, is just fine; too bad you can't see what you're entering.
>

The ones I have seen are often caused by terminals that send sequences
for function keys faster than the host can handle them.  The host misses
a character or two, and you end up with a random command.  This can
lead to a corrupt file.  It is a good thing vi has an UNDO command!

I have seen this happen on 68k unix boxes, and on a pc6300+.  I am
pretty sure I have also seen it on vaxes.
-- 
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