From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 3 20:20:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08479 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08452 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA03565; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:50:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id OAA65295; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:50:43 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:50:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell Cc: Chris Csanady , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many people use VI? This is unbelievable.. Message-ID: <19990204145043.H1179@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990204035306.EEA306@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> <199902040418.PAA14815@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902040418.PAA14815@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 03:18:42PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 4 February 1999 at 15:18:42 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > Chris Csanady wrote: >> 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.. > > FWIW, this message is being edited with vi on a 2.2.8-STABLE machine > rlogged in from a dxterm running on an OSF/1 box. The keyboard is one > of DEC's LK401 things with the funny "Do" keys etc from back when VAX > was just a twinkle in PDP's eye. I have TERM=vt100 in my FreeBSD > environment, dxterm configured with the "Numeric Keypad" option checked > and vt100 emulation, so keypad keys are 0.123456789, just like you'd > expect. It's not vi that's the problem, just your termcap setting doesn't > match the keyboard. Correct, and he doesn't say what he's using, but I see that I have problems with both vi and terminal Emacs when using an xterm. Emacs goes crazy: it's obviously interpreting the keypad entries as commands. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message