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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:15:16 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How many people use VI?  This is unbelievable..
Message-ID:  <19990203221516.T16540@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990204035306.EEA306@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>; from Chris Csanady on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:53:05PM -0600
References:  <19990204035306.EEA306@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>

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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:53:05PM -0600, a little birdie told me
that Chris Csanady remarked
> I unfortunately have a lot of data to type in, and to my surprise
> the keypad is unuseable in vi.  It doesn't even work in vim.  Thank
> god it works on Irix--I thought I would be using ee.
> 
> Anyways, here is what happens when I type the digits 1-9 on the
> keypad while in insert mode..

That's not a function of vi, that's a function of your terminal.
Lemme guess; xterm, right?  If I start vi in console mode, works fine.
>From a raw xterm, no dice.  I haven't tracked down what precisely is
causing it to roll over and start twitching under X because it doesn't
bug me that much, but it may you.


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