From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 15 08:01:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA23326 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:01:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA23321 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id JAA04880; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:00:44 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <328C93AC.4C5E@Colorado.EDU> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:00:44 -0700 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archie Cobbs CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi complaints References: <199611150443.UAA19871@bubba.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 \