<ESC> char filtered out in vi..

From: franXoSAURus reX <franx_at_oas.telstra.com.au>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:03:54 +1100

Greetings DUnix Mans & Womans,

This one must have come up before, my apologies in advance if I'm
wasting your bandwidth, its just real frustrating..

In "Digital UNIX V3.2C", when I open a file in vi, all the escape chars
(y'know <ESC> 0x1b) are not displayed, and do not get written out when
the file gets saved..

This effectively breaks all the *clever* things like mapping functions
keys in ${HOME}/.exrc, ANSI graphics, etc..

vi does not do this in DEC RISC ULTRIX 4.4 (BSD flavoured)...

My reading of the man page makes no mention of this; Is this a
"This change was made to meet the specifications of XPG4."

Is there any way to turn it back on???

TIA, fRAnX.

--Frank Gallacher, Sys. ANALyst/Programmer,(aka.frAnXoSAURus reX)
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