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Arrow keys work in input mode. In fact, if you invoke the editor via the name "input", then it will start editing in input mode. You can make your changes, and then exit by hitting
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distribution adopted Elvis as its vi replacement. But at UC Berkeley, Keith Bostic wanted a “bug for bug compatible” replacement for Joy's vi for BSD 4.4 Lite. Using
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244:Example of Elvis' hexadecimal editing mode.
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974:"Elvis 2.1_4 is now available"
386:"html" which formats Web pages
177:(ClArtistic) which is used by
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689:Thompson, Tim (2000-03-26).
518:. 1994-09-21. Archived from
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