On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:04:38PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Eghads!  That's weird!  Oddly enough <CTRL-W> still does a word-erase in
> vi too but suddenly there's no way to get to the extended command
> prompt.
> [ On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 at 13:37:04 (+0000), Julian Coleman wrote: ]
> >  What did you expect to happen?
> That ':' would continue to have its default meaning of beginning an
> extended (ex) command....
	huh?  it works fine for me.:
stty werase :
vi /tmp/foo
ibar baz<ESC>:wq
	and I'm back at the command prompt.

eric