Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960803015021.19517A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608030846.KAA29126@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > Every once in a while I inadvertently use the command :a in vi, and > > the keyboard gets rewritten--I end up in insert mode and the arrow > > keys no longer work (instead producing [ characters). The escape > > key no longer works to get back to command mode. > > Happened to me recently too and I had to learn from wise people > on the list that :a is a feature and you quit it by typing a '.' > in the first column. :-) Thanks Chris! And also Mike Murphy and Robert Eckardt. For once everyone's got the same answer. Some feature! And as far as I can tell, undocumented in even Abrahams & Larson and the document on vi in /usr/share/docs. Annelise
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