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- From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
- Subject: Curious DECstation 5000/200 vi behavior
- Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
- Originator: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.134047.20886@ctr.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:40:47 GMT
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- In vi, saying "w" advances the cursor one word, and in most versions of
- vi this works across lines. On the DECstation, too, it advances across
- linefeeds, unless, surprisingly, the line ends with a tab or space. Then
- "w" refuses to go beyond the end of a line.
-
- This is really only a minor annoyance; still, I found it curious. On
- HP and SGI, "w" always advances across linefeeds. I don't have access
- to other BSD machines (besides the DECstation), so maybe this is a
- BSD-ism, rather than merely a DEC-ism.
-
- -P.
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