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Or when I'm in a chat or composing an e-mail in Notes and I hit escape so I can 'j' over a few characters and correct something and my chat window disappears or have notes pop up the "do you want to send, save, discard, cancel" dialog box

^a^c<alt>+<Tab>i<shift>+<ins>



Carl

can you or anybody tell me how to make backspace work in vi? when i press backspace, it simply moves one place to the left.

How do you know it's not working?

Try this: a) start INSERT mode, b) type "abcdefghijkl", c) hit backspace 3x, d) hit ESCAPE to leave INSERT mode. You should see the last three characters disappear.

Backspace on most UNIX vi editors that I work on is not visibly destructive but when you hit ESCAPE, the backspace delete becomes evident. I haven't used VIM for a few months now and I can't recall whether it behaves the same or not.

There is a reason why most seasoned vi users (at least from my point of view), who have learned how to utilize its considerable functionality, chose vi over other editors. It's not because they don't like other editors per se but, rather, it's more attributed to vi's utility and availabilty.

It does in Vim 7, only you see the characters disappear in Vim.

vi! yeah!.
just wish that vi commands worked inside of wordpad & notepad.
lke everyone else said, vi is everywhere, always works the same, and shows me
the line feeds if they are present.
C.

i'm still not able to use vi even i use *nix few months already. so i use mcedit.

mostly i have to use vi, cause it's the default one, and usually you have to log on another machines, and they don't have my favorite "aee"