🚀 go-pugleaf

I just recently got an account on a unix machine that considerately
does not have a man or help function to access any sort of documentation,
and it seems I tried to mail from it, and its default editor is vi.
I was warned that for some really stupid reason, disconnecting a vi
process crashes the machine.  I do not have the ability to un-crash it,
so I need to know how to get out of the damn thing.  vi will not suspend,
or recognize any sort of control or escape key.  It used to accept
ctl-\, and give me a ':' prompt, from which I could quit, but I lost that
along with full-screen capabilities.  an escape key causes the next key
to be one space to the right, with the cursor on top of it, like typing a
space, the caracter, then left arrow.

any information anybody can send me at all will be graciously received.
but I have to get it now, or otherwise leave the process going all night.
a man page would be great, and I can read mail fine, but until I can get
elm to take emacs as its editor, I can only email from this bbs account.
you can send me mail here, at jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu, or at my new
unix account, jboser@shark.cs.fau.edu

btw... if someone could explain to me why elm, rn, and vi do not like 
either backspaces or deletes, and treats them as control chars, I would
appreciate it.

thanks for any and all replys in advance,


.....jeff
jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu
"Make something an idiot can use, and only an idiot will use it" -RAH
  Like a Bible, maybe?