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From: wkb@cbnews.ATT.COM (Wm. Keith Brummett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS VI bugs ?? still??
Summary: Am I the only one who knows this?
Keywords: MKS vi
Message-ID: <4889@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 89 02:57:59 GMT
References: <1921@loral.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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 ...
    > 
    > And I cannot insert a "@" character into a line at all!  The 
    > @ seems to delete to start of line, even in insert mode.

    Although a couple of people have mentioned that one can change the
    default line-kill character to something other than "@", no one seems to
    have mentioned that you merely have to escape it with a "\" when in the
    insert/append mode.  This works on a Unix(R) system also.  (In fact, I
    just used it in this posting.)  E.g., to insert the string "abc@xyz"
    into a file, you enter "abc\@xyz" while in insert/append mode.  The "\"
    disappears when you enter the "@", and you are left with the string that
    you want.  Is simple, n'est pas?

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