>Submitter-Id:	net
>Originator:	Bob Kemp
>Organization:
	ECS Dept, Southampton University, UK
>Confidential:	no
>Synopsis:	nvi doesn't recognise backspace
>Severity:	non-critical
>Priority:	low
>Category:	bin
>Class:		change-request
>Release:	-current 05Mar94
>Environment:
System: NetBSD allegory 0.9a ALLEGORY#0 i386


>Description:
	The original vi treated ^H and ^? as identical during input
	mode but nvi only accepts ^? for deleting a character -- ^H is
	input as an ordinary character.

	Because I (and many others) use vi on commercial unices
	the difference in behaviour is annoying.  Different keyboards
	are unavoidable, this kind of incompatibility isn't.

	Note that I'm only suggesting the change during input mode,
	in command mode delete seems to be equivalent to x, but
	perhaps it could be done throughout.

>How-To-Repeat:
	:-)
>Fix:
	Please.


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