vi under SCO Unix
Eamonn McManus
em at dce.ie
Wed Jan 2 22:12:08 AEST 1991
jpr at jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>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 are severely broken in SCO Unix, at least in 3.2.0.
Practically any expression using the closure operator (*) can be expected
not to work. Your simplest solution is to grab your Xenix vi binary and
use it instead.
,
Eamonn
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