vi in SCO UNIX

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <9101020746.AA08202 at robobar.Co.Uk> ronald at robobar.Co.Uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>[ I've crossposted to USENET because I'm hoping someone has an answer to
>  a question regarding the SVR3 vi in general ]

I also posted me original question here, it just didn't propagate to you as
quickly as the mailing list.

>In article <9101012058.AA04469 at jpr.com> on the SCO mailing list
>jpr at jpr.com wrote:
>> This is a mapping which I used daily in SCO Xenix to compose replies to
>> CompuServe messages.
>> 
>> map  #1  ?#: [0-9][0-9].* S[0-9][0-9]*/?Wyt N<<Ore^[pmao/post unf^[mbO
>> 
>> It fails in SCO Unix. Does anyone know what they've changed in vi, besides
>> using terminfo instead of termcap?

>Regular expressions in SCO Unix vi seem to be severely broken, I *think*
>it's closure of a character class that does it.  "ver" on SCO Unix says
>SVR3.1, does anyone know if the base port for that has such problems?

The mailing list has this response:
>From: Eli Liang <uupsi!sco.COM!elil>
>Date: Wed, 2 Jan 91 2:00:15 PST
>Message-Id:  <9101020200.aa12864 at scoville.sco.COM>

>This is the result of a small bug that was introduced into vi when it was
>internationalized.  I fixed it for SCO UNIX 3.2v2.  You may want to consider
>upgrading your OS if this is a problem for you.

Sounds good but it seems to me I already have that version. Running
"uname -v -r" shows:
	3.2 2

And running "what /usr/bin/vi" shows:
/usr/bin/vi:
	 printf.c:2.2 6/5/79
	 SCO UNIX 3.2V2 OS 09 Jun 90
Is there a later version of vi?

>Anyway, personally, I gave up with the SCO Unix vi and use the SCO
>Xenix vi instead.  Doing that does pose problems, like % substitution
>doesn't work from the :! mode (top bit gets set), but that's a lot
>less hassle than broken regular expressions.

That's what I'm doing too. But that phenomenon is not consistent. As user
"jpr", it happens when I'm a given directory but not when "root" tries vi
in that directory. It doesn't happen all the time.


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