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From: klier@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan Klier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Slight Problem With Vi in 1.1
Date: 17 Jul 1994 05:50:53 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>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.
Speaking of new/old features:
A thing I really dislike about the new vi is that it is unable to handle
a - in the filename. If you edit a file and then use the :e command to
load another file, this new file cannot have a - in its filename or you
get a nice help message that doesn't help you in any way.
jan
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