From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 02:29:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA16817 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA16810 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA19650; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi question In-Reply-To: <199608030846.KAA29126@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > 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 works 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 column. :-) Thanks Chris! And also Mike Murphy and Robert Eckardt. For once everyone's got the same answer. Some feature! And as far as I can tell, undocumented in even Abrahams & Larson and the document on vi in /usr/share/docs. Annelise