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From: Leon Kaplan <kaplan@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: Shells
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:21:50 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920004046.1049N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Sep 20, 96 00:41:16 am
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> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote:
> 
> >     Thanks to all who responded to my previous query.  You've all
> > been most helpful and informative!! :)  I guess I've pretty much
> > decided to look into something other than tcsh, but I'm finding
> > that using when ksh, bash, or zsh, a vi session under an Xterm,
> > or rxvt window has some rather strange behavior!  I've been
> > sifting through man pages and reference books I have to try to 
> > figure out how to modify this behavior.  The thing that is most 
> > notable at this point is the effect of my PageUP and PageDown
> > keys.  It converts all characters to UPPERCASE. ( of course, you
> > probably already knew this eh?  :) :)  ) Is there a way to alter this?
> 
> No.  Vi doesn't understand pgup/pgdown.  Use ^F/^B instead.
> 
Hmm... the vi clone that was shipped with my FreeBSD 2.1.0 _does_
undertand them, even in X
(seems my keymap (german-isoxxx) and the X keymappings came correctly).

greetings,
Leon Aaron Kaplan.