From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 04:17:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F4B16A417 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D50913C447 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ib7IU-0005NI-Of for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:17:56 -0700 Received: from mtl121c.math.arizona.edu ([128.196.225.166]) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (SSL 3.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Ib7IM-0005Ms-Iu; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:17:42 -0700 Message-ID: <46FC8039.703@math.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:16:57 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Chandler , questions@freebsd.org References: <46FC605F.3000006@sequestered.net> In-Reply-To: <46FC605F.3000006@sequestered.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.8 (-----) Cc: Subject: Re: Getting vim to work correctly. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:17:20 -0000 Jay Chandler wrote: > Howdy. > > Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone > know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working > correctly in vim? > > It works in Linux, drives me nuts in FreeBSD... FreeBSD by default uses nvi (new vi editor its own light version of vim) I would try to use that before I waist time with vim. It is included in your base distribution no need to compile. The commands are standard vi commands. For light editing you are probably better of to use ee (easy edit) the simplest FreeBSD specific editor included in distribution. This is not to say that vim doesn't work. You have to compile from ports and since I do not use vim I am not probably good person to answer your question.