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From: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MKS VI bugs ?? still??
Keywords: MKS vi
Message-ID: <1921@loral.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 00:50:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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I just got the latest release of MKS Toolkit ( i.e. I paid for
an upgrade), and I was disappointed that there were STILL the
same bugs in vi.  I had assumed that the bugs I was seeing were
due to not having the latest version....

Maybe they are not bugs at all, and I am just using it wrong,
somehow.  Clues, anyone?  Here are my probs:

If I backspace in INSERT mode (with control-H; does that make
any difference?), I delete NOT ONLY the character I typed last,
but ALSO delete one character out of the original line for
each backspace I do!

And I cannot insert a "@" character into a line at all!  The 
@ seems to delete to start of line, even in insert mode.


It is hard to believe that these are "bugs" really there in this
product, at this stage!  What am I doing wrong?

I love it otherwise, because of all the ex commands it runs
PERFECTLY!  Like ".,'as/^/    /"

And :r !dir

Yes, it's probably something in need in my ex.rc, isn't it?

Any help is appreciated!

- Jay


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