[comp.sys.apollo] Switching files in vi

GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET (fclim) (07/05/89)

In article <552@parcplace.pplace.COM> khaw@pplace.COM (Mike Khaw) writes:
>
>(Not-necessarily-root) Domain_OS vi weirdities (no flames
>about using vi, please -- I have to work on many different Unix
>machines and it's not worth the aggravation to me to learn the DM
>editor):
>
>    (Must be a keymap problem ...) ^^ (control-caret) doesn't
>    do anything (it's supposed to take you to the previous file
>    you were editing).  I also wish the bsd environment did
>    proper keymaps for ^u (kill line) and ^w (kill word).

It isn't ^^ (control-caret) as documented in the manual,
but is ^~ (control-tilde).  I don't think it's a keymap problem
'cos vi pulls the pad into a vt100 which ignore the DM key definitions.

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