BETA4 Vi backspace behavior

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
<<On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:51:48 -0400, Mike B <meb_at_cinci.rr.com> said:

> Sorry if this is already addressed or is a non-issue. If I enter text 
> into vi (or vim for that matter) and hit the backspace key the cursor 
> runs over the text but does not remove it from the screen.

I have never known vi(1) to behave in any other way, going back to
FreeBSD 1.1.

-GAWollman
Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 02:28:10 UTC

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