On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:59:34AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > > Solaris vi goes to the end of the word. > > > (It repeats the beeping - in vile I made that behavior optional). > > > > Okay, now this is getting even more interesting. . . > > > > Tru64's (BSD-based) VI stops at the start of the last word and starts > > A lot of Tru64 (OSF/1) is original implementation rather than being copied > from older sources. While technically accurate, it tends to not have a > lot of legacy quirks. (For the other extreme, see HPUX). Does anybody here have access to an HPUX VI? I don't. > > beeping away, like elvis. Now, does that mean BSD's VIs all behave > > like elvis? Do we have any *BSD dudes here who can help out? (I'm way > > too tired to hop on the console of my local firewall at this hour.) > > My next question would be about SunOS's VI. (Unfortunately, I have no > > like Solaris, SunOS's vi goes to the end of the word. interesting > Ditto IRIX64. Well, IRIX is also AT&T-based, so there's no surprise there. However, it gives the same support I was hoping to gain from AIX, that AT&T's VI probably went to the end of the word. Now, since SunOS exhibits the same behavior, it's unlikely that Berkley "fixed" it once and for all. (In other words, it's highly unlikely that any of the *BSD systems (directly based on BSD) would exhibit the elvis behavior.) I wonder whether DEC was the first to fix it, though, or whether some of the other BSD-based systems also have the elvis behavior. Thanks a bunch for your help, - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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