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- From: Kim Holburn <kim@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Subject: Wierd vi problem under Dynix/ptx
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.013743.1381@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- X-Xxdate: Thu, 27 Aug 92 19:53:20 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 01:37:43 GMT
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- Hi,
- Although this isn't exactly the right group I thought someone might
- know
- the answer. On a sequent running ptx. vi does weird things with @ and #
- and
- maybe other letters. It treats them like some sort of control characters.
- This doesn't happen on any other system I've come across. I have to quote
- these characters with ^v in order to insert them. Is there any way of
- fixing this.
-
- Apart from using a reasonable editor. I'd love to: if there was a simple,
- small,
- powerful and (I hope I don't offend too many people here but, non
- brain-dead
- unix editor.) Since I may get flamed for saying this I might start with a
- flame
- myself:-) I think if I need to read a manual to use a program then it is
- basically a
- badly written program.
- Vi doesn't even seem to have a manual, or not one that includes it's
- editing
- commands.
- Emacs is not only big and I'll probably have to learn it eventually but
- each time
- I've used it, so far, I've had to log in on another session and kill it
- because I
- couldn't figure out how to terminate it simply.
- Pico doesn't have regular expression search/replace. Although it does
- have a spell
- checker.
- I'm not talking about any editor that only works on one terminal or
- console
- (openwindows textedit) and not remotely.
-
- Thanks in advance.
- If anyone is interested I'll summarize etc. etc.
-
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