Re: [TCLUG:17269] solaris annoyances

[Brian Dolan-Goecke <Brian@Goecke-Dolan.com>]

Welcome to the world of *NOT* Linux.

It is a cross between the terminal and the program.  It the bad old days, the keys on the "Terminal"  (yes
that is terminal, as VT 100 ) were limited to ascii.  Now how did you do have all of these keys if you can
only do ascii ?  Well you map some keys to MULTIPLE characters.  So your arrow key is mapped to ESCD... hummm
or is that right ? let me dig up my AT&T terminal reference manual...  Okay I found it, my "AT&T Pocket
Reference Guide Dataspeed 4425 Display Terminal" It says the sequence sent is "ESC[A" ... "ESC[C". (Okay so
it also says a vt52 is ESC A ... ESC D )  So what happens, is this older version of Vi doesn't quite
understand what a "up arrow" is, and it gets confused, and it acts on the key sequences sent as keys typed in
rather than as a arrow key pressed.

Any ways.  How do you fix it ?  Well...  I am not sure.  You have to make sure your terminal type is
correct.  And use a recent version of VI.  I would think vim would handle it correctly.

I will give it a hack on my sun to see what I can come up with.

==>brian.

Luke Francl wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Gabe Turner wrote:
>
> > Right, vim doesn't let you use the arrow keys while in editing mode.  For years
> > and years people have been hitting ESC before they move around in vi.  Hell,
> > we're lucky we can even use arrow keys. Personally, I'm a big fan of h,j,k,l :)
> >
> > I know that you can move around in vi in slack, but it's really elvis.  Try installing elvis on the box.
>
> you're crazy gabe. moving with the arrows in vim works just fine on our
> FreeBSD box, and on my slack box at home.
>
> I think it's the terminal settings or something, not the program.
>
>
>
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