Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:04:49 +0200 From: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi unusable? Message-ID: <199611110704.JAA14789@grackle.grondar.za>
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Michael Smith wrote: > > Now I hate vi as much as anyone else, but there are times when it's > handy to use. Those of us that don't have hjkl wired into our fingers > tend to go for the cursor keys to move around though, and I've noticed > on a couple of -current systems I just set up that hitting a cursor > key in move mode wins you a beep and you drop into insert mode. > Extremely annoying. > > I've experienced this on the console, under X, and telnetted in both fast > (local ether) and slow (SLIP link), on several machines. > > Anyone else? Yup, Me. It mostly happens in XTerms, and happens when i am hittin lots of cursor keys. Sooner or later, one of them turns into an input and I get D D D D Or the like and I start practising my swearword vocabulary. This mostly happens over ethernet to a SUN, but also happens FreeBSD<->FreeBSD. M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE
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