Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:32:29 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting vim to work correctly. Message-ID: <200709281532.29513.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <46FC99BD.4050102@sequestered.net> References: <46FC605F.3000006@sequestered.net> <46FC83E5.2040907@computer.org> <46FC99BD.4050102@sequestered.net>
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On Friday 28 September 2007 06:05:49 Jay Chandler wrote: > Eric Schuele wrote: > > On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote: > >> Howdy. > >> > >> Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone > >> know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working > >> correctly in vim? > >> > >> It works in Linux, drives me nuts in FreeBSD... > > > > They work perfectly fine here. How is it you expect those keys to > > behave? Define "working correctly". > > When in insert mode, and pagedown is pressed, the letter the cursor is > over is capitalized, and the editor is removed from insert mode, as an > example. > > PageUp capitalizes the letter next to it, and again removes me from > insert mode. > > Home randomly capitalizes letters and shifts the cursor to the next letter. > > Insert decapitalizes the letter the cursor is over. > > Weird behavior like this... > > I was mistaken in that this is in vim-- this is in the natural version > of vi that ships with the base OS. > > This is happening from PuTTY in default setting mode on a Windows box-- > my MacBook is relatively better behaved. If you also run Linux, you can copy your ~/.vimrc or the systemwide one to your FreeBSD as ~/.vimrc and that should fix the problem. Also export your editor as vim in your ~/.bashrc. In addition, I make an alias so that when I use 'vi' as a command, I get 'vim' and not what FreeBSD uses as vi by default. I had the same problems that you report.
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