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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS VI bugs ?? still??
Summary: @ is the default line-kill, but it's settable!
Keywords: MKS vi
Message-ID: <13870@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 89 17:02:22 GMT
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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.

MKS vi sets @ as the default line-kill character.
You can fix this by putting the following in your ex.rc:

set linedelete=0x15

This sets the line-kill character to the more common CTRL-U.
Of course, you can set this to be anything you want, just use the
appropriate ascii code (in decimal, octal or hex).

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