A million thanks! On this system, the environment variable "LANG" was set to LANG=en_US.UTF-8 so I changed it to "C" and the problem totally disappeared. /etc/alternatives/vi is, in fact, another link that points right to vim.tiny. Getting vi to work better is really nice because that scrambled auditory feedback was enough to drive me the short distance to crazy. Again, thank you. Martin McCormick Adam Myrow writes: > Debian has a strange mechanism when more than one binary can potentially > provide the same command. The link in /usr/bin points to > /etc/alternatives, > which itself is a link to the real program. So, to find out what you are > really running, look at /etc/alternatives/vi to see what it points to. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
