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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: patch to vi editor
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Date: 20 Feb 93 11:40:37 GMT
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pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:

>I haven't tried vim, but I have experienced the vi problems that others
>have been talking about -- what you hit on, however, the the terminal-driver
>issue.  I have found that vi on my machine is only flaky at console;
>from terminal windows on other machines it works like a charm.

>pauls@umich.edu
Hmm...not here: I am typing this from a vt102 connected via a serial line. 
Always when I go up in afile and then delete a line with dd, the correct
line is deleted, though the display tells me otherwise. A ctrl-L fixes
it.

-Guido
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