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Date:      Tue, 31 Dec 1996 01:30:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/2320: Trouble with using arrow keys to navigate in vi (FreeBSD 2.2-BETA)
Message-ID:  <199612310930.BAA21764@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/2320; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: nfung@typhoon.co.jp (Nelson Fung)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/2320: Trouble with using arrow keys to navigate in vi (FreeBSD 2.2-BETA)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:17:32 +0100 (MET)

 As Nelson Fung wrote:
 
 > Yeah!  Console works fine but rsh-ing, telnet-ing into the machine
 > (whether it's Xterm or a vt100) over the network has problems.  
 > 
 > Is this (n?)curses thing being fixed before the release? 
 
 It turns out to be a vi problem about the default timeout value...
 Try
 
 :set escapetime=10
 
 There's a discussion in the FreeBSD mailing lists right now, i'd
 expect that we bump that value from 1 to 10 before the release.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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