> > Unix, for years, shipped with a editor nobody could use
> > and backspace key that did not work, and seemed rigged
>
> Try "stty erase ^H" The ^H is the backspace key. And vi is a prince
> among text editors. It rocks.
I remember trying to learn vi and making up lots of new cusswords in the
university computing lab. (Using a Mac running NCSA Telnet, natch.)
Now I won't use anything else but vi, because it's fast, flexible and very
light on termcap (unlike a certain *ahem*PICO*ahem* other editor
*ahem*PICO*ahem* I could mention). It was well worth the effort. One of my
persistent threats is to write a stripped down vi clone for the C64.
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Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 20:54:56 BST