From: please@replytogroup.com   
      
   On 2022-05-03, colonel_hack@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > slackware 15.0 has changed to nvi and now it behaves like FreeBSD's vi: In   
   > insert mode when you move to the first of a line it switches to command   
   > mode. I'd rather it didn't but it hasn't worried me enough to look into   
   > how to change it. But I have wondered why.   
      
   I'm guessing you're using the 'Home' button to return to the beginning   
   of the line? On my machines, if I hit Home while in insert mode on nvi,   
   it inserts a junk character, and *then* goes into normal mode.  So then   
   when you hit Home again, it does return to the beginning of the line,   
   albeit in normal mode.   
      
   So if that's what you're doing, I'm thinking this has more to do with   
   using the Home button to return to the beginning of the line than   
   specific behaviour in nvi.   
      
   I only really use vim, but in standard vi editors, you return to the   
   beginning of the line by typing '0' in normal mode. So that is how I've   
   trained myself to do it for years, and the muscle memory is just not   
   going to change. So I don't really personally have much motivation to   
   get this working with the Home button. So I'm thinking this likely has   
   to do with keymappings, etc., and some of the usual gross stuff that can   
   cause Backspace not to work as expected.   
      
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