Greetings. On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:21:01 +0100 Eckehard Berns <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 03:42:40PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:42:40 +0100 Eckehard Berns <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I added some code to make insert mode work in st. I don't know if I > > > missed something, but It's Working For Me(tm). Patch attached. > > > > What are you using this insert mode for? > > I access some machines remotely and I don't want to install the terminfo > entry on all of them (some of which belong to customers and I wouldn't > even want to temper with their system). So I simply set TERM=vt220 when > on the remote machine. Insert mode is used by nvi and traditional vi > among others.
Ok, that seems like a legit feature. Which applications you encountered are using this mode? Only nvi and vi? Your patch is applied to the tip of st. Thanks! Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
