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Date:      04 Feb 1999 07:27:20 +0100
From:      as@psa.at (Alexander Sanda)
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How many people use VI?  This is unbelievable..
Message-ID:  <socmlm47.fsf@darkstar.vmx>
In-Reply-To: John Birrell's message of "Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:18:42 %2B1100 (EST)"
References:  <199902040418.PAA14815@cimlogic.com.au>

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John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> writes:

> 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.

But why is it only vi ?

I see the same behaviour here (-current, Eterm, TERM=xterm). The numeric
keypad works for XEmacs forced to use term instead of X, pico, mcedit
(midnight commanders builtin editor), shell - everywhere else, but not
for vi.

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