Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 10:46:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi question Message-ID: <199608030846.KAA29126@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802144755.18578A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> from Annelise Anderson at "Aug 2, 96 03:11:48 pm"
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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. Happened to me recently too and I had to learn from wise people on the list that :a is a feature and you quit it by typing a '.' in the first coulumn. :-) > > 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 > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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