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RE: strange vi



Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 23:41, justin cunningham escreveu:
> dpkg -l | grep vi shows nvi 1.79-20.  the potato's show 1.79-16a.1.  
> 
> ok, so if I use the letter keys instead how to I get to the end of a
> line of data then press return to enter a new line without taking the
> last character with me? 
> 

Like usual A

Michel

> Justin
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dman [mailto:dman@dman.ddts.net] On Behalf Of dman
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:15 PM
> To: 'debian'
> Subject: Re: strange vi
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:39:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> | justin cunningham wrote:
> | > 
> | > Hi, I've s-l-o-w-l-y been building a woody machine in spare time and
> | > noticed that I can't use the arrow keys to get around in vi.  Is
> this
> | > because the keyboard is misconfiged?   I think I remember choosing
> the
> | > default us qwerty as ok but I'm sshed into the machine from my
> laptop
> | > and the arrow keys don't work.  Though they work at the console.  My
> | > laptops arrow keys work via ssh on lots of potato machines so, what
> | > gives?   Regards, justin
> | 
> | Can't help except to say that 'j' is up, 'k' is down, 'h' is left and
> | 'l' is right.  That makes sense, doesn't it? ;-)
> 
> It does once you put your hand on home row and see where the keys are
> (and forget about the screen printing on them).
> 
> 
> As for the arrow keys not working, which "vi" do you have?  Surely it
> isn't 'vi' since that is copyright and only Sun systems have it.  In
> vim, I have the following set :
> 
> set esckeys         " allow cursor keys in insert mode
> 
> The arrow keys work, but I never use them anyways.
> 
> HTH,
> -D
> 
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