From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 22:15:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA25509 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 22:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from wakko.gil.net (keithl@wakko.gil.net [207.100.79.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA25501 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 22:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keithl@localhost) by wakko.gil.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA01922 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 01:16:30 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 01:16:30 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vi and mapping keys Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy, Perhaps I'm archaic but I like vi. however when I have tried to map functions to specific key (per Learning the vi Editor - O'Reilly & assoc.) nvi doesn't seem to want to do it. It says things like: ^V not a vi command - attempting to trap the escape [[. usage (after maping and attempting to use a special key) is this a situation with vi or is it with termcap? If vi - what can be done (besides rewriting it myself ;) ) I've read manpages for vi/nvi The Complete FreeBSD 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents (tab 13) What have I missed or is nvi just not compatible with the above mentioned book (Learning the VI Editor) Sorry for the endless question and Thanks in Advance, Keith keithl@gil.net ------------------------------------------------------ Character is what you are in the dark - John Warfin ------------------------------------------------------