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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: oops.  i made a mistake in my request for termcap help.
Message-ID: <1989Sep29.005125.21813@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 29 Sep 89 00:51:25 GMT
References: <6594@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <6594@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> by rabe@thor.stolaf.edu (brett m rabe):
+---------------
| To restate the problem:
|     When using the editor vi:
| 	1: When moving the cursor down or up, it will delete out to the
| 	   cursor position.
| 	2: When moving over words using "w" or "b" it will delete the
| 	   word about 50% of the time.
+---------------

It's not your termcap.  Check the terminal set-up; you'll probably find an
entry that says that backspace is "destructive".  This means that ^H makes the
cursor not just move backwards but also erase the character.  Change it to be
"non-destructive", and all will be well.

If you *don't* find such an entry, I can't help you... your termcap looks fine
to me.

++Brandon
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