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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
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