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Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!turing.toronto.edu!erlebach
From: erlebach@turing.toronto.edu (Beverly Erlebacher)
Subject: Re: MKS VI bugs ?? still??
Message-ID: <89Mar15.125148est.4328@turing.toronto.edu>
Keywords: MKS vi linedelete  
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 12:51:47 EST

In article <1921@loral.UUCP> jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden) writes:
>
>And I cannot insert a "@" character into a line at all!  The 
>@ seems to delete to start of line, even in insert mode.

I wrote to MKS about this problem last fall and got the following reply.
(I think it's ok to post it since it is certainly not confidential and
is real 'from-the-horse's-mouth' accurate info!)  I did as suggested and
it worked with no problems.  MKS gives very good tech support.

| Date:	Fri, 23 Sep 88 13:55:04 EDT
| From:	mks!wheels@watmath (Gerry Wheeler)
| Subject: re: '@' in vi
| 
| If you start up vi, and look at the list of settings with the ":set all"
| command, you will see one called "linedelete".  By default it is set to
| 0x0040, which is the @ character.  You can change it to whatever you
| like with a command like ":set linedelete 0x0040".  In fact, if you
| don't want it at all you could set it to 0x0000, which is not something
| you're likely to type.  (I guess 0xffff would be similar.) Once you find
| a setting you like, you can put the set command into the ex.rc
| initialisation file. 
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