vi changes from 5/6 to 6.1

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

I've never had to dink with the setup of vi but my one 6.1 host has this
annoying problem:  When autoindent is set and I try to back up (e.g., to
unindent the closing brace of a loop), it just makes an error beep; it
won't backup over the tab.  The help file appears to say that this is the
correct behavior but I cannot image why and it worked differently in
previous Red Hat versions.  I searched deja and Control-D is not what I'm
looking for.  

Hmm, as I type this, I'm wondering if it's the terminal setup rather than
vi...  this happens when I telnet in and also on the console using terminal
types vt100 and linux. 

Anyway, if anyone can see what's wrong or has solved the same problem, I'd
appreciate a note.  I'd like to get back to the 6.0/5.x way. Thanks!

-Alan
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