Re: vi (and more) buffer a few keystrokes at a time
This is an old, well known ncurses problem. It can be fixed with:
stty eof '^a'
Anyone tried to look at ncurses to fix it in the source?
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 amiller@almaden.ibm.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a system built with the 981115 diskettes.
> When I run vi (or use more), it is as if my keystrokes are being buffered
> (and the buffer has 3 or 4 characters.) Obviously this makes vi very
> unfriendly to use. I don't have any problems entering commands,
> only when vi is running in full-screen. I guess this is symptomatic
> of ncurses being messed up? I don't really know.
>
> ---more info---
> vi difficult to use because of ?keyboard? buffering
>
> # which vi
> /usr/bin/vi
> # ls -lta /usr/bin/vi
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 21 2018 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
>
> ------
> Are there some packages I should try deleting then re-installing?
>
> ----
> thanks,
>
> Alex Miller
> amiller@cats.ucsc.edu
>
>
>
>
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-- Bob
Bob McElrath (mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
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