On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:21:01PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:21:01 +0100 Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckl...@ecki.to> > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 03:42:40PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > > > 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?
I don't use too many term{cap,info} apps on remote machines. But from the nature of insert mode I would assume that mainly editors would use it. A quick test on my own system showed no other editor using insert mode though. -- Eckehard Berns