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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Slight Problem With Vi in 1.1 Date: 16 Jul 1994 17:50:45 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3096ll$m0c@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Jul15.071723.18957@turtle.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <1994Jul15.071723.18957@turtle.apana.org.au>, Robert Nagy <nagy@turtle.apana.org.au> wrote: >I recently upgraded from version 1.02 to version 1.1 .. >When I used to use vi previously in insertmode I could use arrow keys >to manouver around my document. Now I find it inserts escape sequences >instead of moving the cursor around. That was a *feature* of elvis that is not supported in the new 'vi' clone, nvi. If you really are hooked on using that feature elvis is still on the machine, so you can run it instead of nvi. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.