Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:11:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vi question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802144755.18578A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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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 words to get back to command mode. If I'm logged in by dial-up I just hang up when this happens; otherwise I can use another virtual terminal and try to kill the process, but this simply converts all the arrow keys and all the F keys as well as escape to a backspace. Ctrl-D produces a command prompt but nothing can be done with it. There must be something about this I don't know....what do I do to get out of this situation? Thanks Annelise
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