From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 10 23:33:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24417 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:33:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:33:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA06910; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:02:58 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611110732.SAA06910@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: vi unusable? In-Reply-To: <96Nov10.231734pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 10, 96 11:17:26 pm" To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:02:57 +1030 (CST) Cc: current@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[