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From: dr@skivs.UUCP (David Robins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS VI bugs ?? still??
Keywords: MKS vi
Message-ID: <2814@skivs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 18:20:12 GMT
References: <1921@loral.UUCP>
Reply-To: dr@skivs.UUCP (David Robins)
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Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
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In article <1921@loral.UUCP> jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden) writes:
>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....
....
>And I cannot insert a "@" character into a line at all!  The 
>@ seems to delete to start of line, even in insert mode.

The @ symbol is the start of a macro command in the MKS vi.  To insert
the @, you have to preceed it with an escape character, the "\" (backslash).
I was stumped also, til I emailed something to MKS, and got a response
from Gary Wheeler.
-- 
David Robins, M.D.  (ophthalmologist / electronics engineer)
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