Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:00:44 -0700 From: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi complaints Message-ID: <328C93AC.4C5E@Colorado.EDU> References: <199611150443.UAA19871@bubba.whistle.com>
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Archie Cobbs wrote: > > People are sensitive about their text editors. > > I'm no exception... :-) > > The new "vi" has two new flaws IMHO... > > o The ESC timeout is too short. My definition of too short is > that when you're telneted to another machine on the same > Ethernet segment, and up arrow sometimes gets misinterpreted > as ESC, A, causing it to open a new line, insert an A, etc. etc. > > o Sometimes when I exit out (maybe via control-z) it displays some > message in reverse video at the bottom, but forgets to reverse > it back, so now everything on the command line is in reverse video. > > -Archie > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com >From the vi man page: keytime [6] The 10th's of a second ex/vi waits for a subsequent key to complete a key mapping. What is your 'keytime' set for? (do a ':set keytime' from vi). This may be too low, you can always set it higher in your .exrc file (put a line 'set keytime=10' or some appropriate value for your configuration). -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \
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