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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:05:50 -0400
From:      "Thimble Smith" <tim@mysql.com>
To:        "William D. Freeman" <wdf@picusnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nvi maintainer?
Message-ID:  <20000419170550.V1716@threads.polyesthetic.msg>
In-Reply-To: <38FE024A.962899C2@picusnet.com>; from wdf@picusnet.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:00:26PM -0400
References:  <38FE024A.962899C2@picusnet.com>

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:00:26PM -0400, William D. Freeman wrote:
> Is there and active maninater for the nvi editor?  I'm jsut asking
> because i'm interested in hacking on it some to add some features i want
> (making backspace do ^H to delete previoue character for one).

Hmmm... probably a better way to fix it would be to just type:

    $ stty erase ^H

at the prompt, before you type vi.  Or, add that into your .profile
or .login file.

> I don't really want to use Vim because i need a project to help
> me become a better C programmer.

It seems like there are probably better projects for improving your
C skills.  Maybe you could use Vim, and add a feature to it (check
with the vim developers list to see what is going on).

Tim


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