From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 10 23:05:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA22606 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from grackle.grondar.za (root@grackle.grondar.za [196.7.18.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA22558 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from grackle.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grackle.grondar.za (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA14789; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:04:50 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199611110704.JAA14789@grackle.grondar.za> To: Michael Smith cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi unusable? Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:04:49 +0200 From: Mark R V Murray Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > > Now I hate vi as much as anyone else, but there are times when it's > handy to use. Those of us that don't have hjkl wired into our fingers > tend to go for the cursor keys to move around though, and I've noticed > on a couple of -current systems I just set up that hitting a cursor > key in move mode wins you a beep and you drop into insert mode. > Extremely annoying. > > I've experienced this on the console, under X, and telnetted in both fast > (local ether) and slow (SLIP link), on several machines. > > Anyone else? Yup, Me. It mostly happens in XTerms, and happens when i am hittin lots of cursor keys. Sooner or later, one of them turns into an input and I get D D D D Or the like and I start practising my swearword vocabulary. This mostly happens over ethernet to a SUN, but also happens FreeBSD<->FreeBSD. M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE