----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Oreman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 5:44 AM Subject: Re: The VI editor
> [Please break your lines at a manageable length -- 72 is good] > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:30:10AM +0200 or thereabouts, mats wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have trouble using vi and vim under freebsd, under linux red hat > > it was working perfect. The trouble is that the arrow-keys doesn't > > work when I'm in insert mode. I have heard that it's important to > > use the right terminalprogram. In vim it's ok with the fancy swedish > > letters with dots over, but the arrow-keys doesn't work. > > FreeBSD comes with the standard vi, not vim. (unless you install the vim port) > > So the arrow keys work in command mode, but not in insert mode? > "That's a feature, not a bug."(TM) > > If the arrow keys didn't work at all, then I would say check $TERM. But as it > is, it's probably a design decision in FBSD vi more than anything. Try the > vim port, if you haven't already. > > -- Josh Strange, they work for me in both vi and vim, in 'insert mode'. > > > > /Mats > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
