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. --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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