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From: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: YAVB - yet another VI bug
Message-ID: <270@astra.necisa.oz>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 19:06:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: astra.270
Posted: Wed Oct  7 19:06:07 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 13:26:53 EDT
Reply-To: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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A common technique in VI is to use tab stops every 4 columns by using
sw=4 and ^D ^T.  However, after a career of bashing the TAB key, it is
difficult to adjust.

One would think that TAB could be mapped into ^T with "map! ^V^I ^V^T",
but no - it says "Missing rhs".  Obviously, the ^V does not escape white
space.

Is this a bug or a feature?  I don't have VI source, which is probably
just as well - it's been known to drive strong men (& women?) to drink.

-- 
Dave Horsfall  (VK2KFU)        ACS:  dave@astra.necisa.OZ
NEC Information Systems Aust.  ARPA: dave%astra.necisa.OZ@uunet.UU.NET
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