> >Description:
> 	The original vi treated ^H and ^? as identical during input
> 	mode but nvi only accepts ^? for deleting a character -- ^H is
> 	input as an ordinary character.
> 
> 	Because I (and many others) use vi on commercial unices
> 	the difference in behaviour is annoying.  Different keyboards
> 	are unavoidable, this kind of incompatibility isn't.

hmm.  i got identical behaviour between Ultrix vi and nvi; in an
xterm, both accept ^H for deleting a character in input mode.
(and yes, my erase character is set to ^?...)

I get the same behaviour on a pc3 console, too...

are you running the latest nvi, in -current?


chris

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