xvi suddenly exits

[gotofan]

Your port of xvi 2.15 exhibits a strange behaviour when in command mode: Pressing the Backspace key when the command cursor is next to the colon at the bottom of the screen (for example, at an empty command prompt after entering ':') causes the xvi terminal to abort, losing any changes made to its buffers. This differs from any vi editor I've used, where pressing Backspace at an empty command line acts much like pressing the Escape key would in that situation,

xvi-x64.exe on Windows 11