Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:09:49 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird inconsistent editing behavior Message-ID: <20000927140949.A39545@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000926235400.D81242@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:54:00PM -0700 References: <20000926131753.A24573@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000926234520.B81242@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20000926235400.D81242@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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| > I only see this effect over network connections when I hold down and | > repeat an arrow key. An arrow key acctually produces several | > characters. Try doing, | > | > <ctrl-v><up-arrow> | > ^[[A | > | > I believe that's an ESC followed by '[' and 'A.' Now you see where the | > 'A's come from? =) (Try the others to find the 'B.') That is, vi(1) | > loses the association of that group of characters actually being one | > keyboard event. | > | > Of course, the way to prevent this is to use h-j-k-l to move around | > the vi screen. Ah, yes, I finally figured this out. :) | Oops, I didn't finish. I've also noticed this when manuevering the | messages list in mutt. However, I just get an annoying beep and a 'key | is not bound' message. I think it would be interesting to see if the | characters are getting broken up and placed into separate packets. Yes, it would be. I wonder why this just happened recently? I wonder if maybe I had a bad network connection, or a slow one. jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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