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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