Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:02:57 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: current@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: vi unusable? Message-ID: <199611110732.SAA06910@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <96Nov10.231734pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 10, 96 11:17:26 pm"
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Bill Fenner stands accused of saying: > Try "set escapetime=10". That should make vi wait a full second for the > rest of the characters. The default is 1 (= 1/10 second), which should > be good enough for the console, so perhaps its timing is broken. escapetime=3 is adequate for a 14k SLIP link. escapetime=2 is necessary for local xterm operation. This is with : Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley. The older version on my system at home is usable as-is with its defaults over several laggy 14k links : Version 1.34, Thu Aug 18 04:07:48 1994 The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley. > Bill -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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