gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) (10/07/90)
In article <0dEy02sbcfd=01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn) writes: >In article <1990Oct2.211454.1195@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes: >>It often happens when using vi that the arrow keys get misinterpreted >>somehow. Lines are then inserted with capital letters on them and one >>is left in edit mode. >The System V version of vi doesn't use curses/terminfo for cursor >movement. I suppose that you like using the cursor keys, but I suggest that you use hjkl (you can also use space, backspace, etc) instead. Using the curosor keys is much slower because you have to take your fingers off the ``home keys'' and then move them back. I almost never use the cursor keys. David Gast gast@cs.ucla.edu {uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!{ucla-cs,cs.ucla.edu}!gast
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (10/08/90)
In article <39847@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> gast@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes: > I suppose that you like using the cursor keys, but I suggest that you > use hjkl (you can also use space, backspace, etc) instead. Doubled. I unmap all the cursor keys in my .newsrc. They're so often mapped to real VI commands such as ^L, ^V, and ^^. If they're not they generate bogus commands when I type ahead of VI and hit sequences like "ESC" "y" (which on some terminals maps to "delete to end of page" and some versions of VI treat as "delete to end of file" (utterly bogus!). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com