Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:56:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jay Chandler <lists@sequestered.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: Getting vim to work correctly. Message-ID: <20070928085631.GA3049@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <46FC99BD.4050102@sequestered.net> References: <46FC605F.3000006@sequestered.net> <46FC83E5.2040907@computer.org> <46FC99BD.4050102@sequestered.net>
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On 2007-09-27 23:05, Jay Chandler <lists@sequestered.net> wrote: > Eric Schuele wrote: >> On 09/27/2007 21:01, 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... >> >> They work perfectly fine here. How is it you expect those keys to >> behave? Define "working correctly". > > When in insert mode, and pagedown is pressed, the letter the cursor is > over is capitalized, and the editor is removed from insert mode, as an > example. > > PageUp capitalizes the letter next to it, and again removes me from > insert mode. > > Home randomly capitalizes letters and shifts the cursor to the next > letter. > > Insert decapitalizes the letter the cursor is over. > > Weird behavior like this... > > I was mistaken in that this is in vim-- this is in the natural version > of vi that ships with the base OS. > > This is happening from PuTTY in default setting mode on a Windows > box-- my MacBook is relatively better behaved. This is usually a configuration error related to the $TERM setup of the client, so what's your terminal set to in the PuTTY setup of Windows?
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