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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
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Message-ID: <3096ll$m0c@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <1994Jul15.071723.18957@turtle.apana.org.au>
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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
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