Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:50:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many people use VI? This is unbelievable.. Message-ID: <19990204145043.H1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902040418.PAA14815@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 03:18:42PM %2B1100 References: <19990204035306.EEA306@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> <199902040418.PAA14815@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Thursday, 4 February 1999 at 15:18:42 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > Chris Csanady wrote: >> I unfortunately have a lot of data to type in, and to my surprise >> the keypad is unuseable in vi. It doesn't even work in vim. Thank >> god it works on Irix--I thought I would be using ee. >> >> Anyways, here is what happens when I type the digits 1-9 on the >> keypad while in insert mode.. > > FWIW, this message is being edited with vi on a 2.2.8-STABLE machine > rlogged in from a dxterm running on an OSF/1 box. The keyboard is one > of DEC's LK401 things with the funny "Do" keys etc from back when VAX > was just a twinkle in PDP's eye. I have TERM=vt100 in my FreeBSD > environment, dxterm configured with the "Numeric Keypad" option checked > and vt100 emulation, so keypad keys are 0.123456789, just like you'd > expect. It's not vi that's the problem, just your termcap setting doesn't > match the keyboard. Correct, and he doesn't say what he's using, but I see that I have problems with both vi and terminal Emacs when using an xterm. Emacs goes crazy: it's obviously interpreting the keypad entries as commands. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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