Here’s a thought. Try changing your terminal type to vt100. The setting is under preferences/advanced. No guarantees but certainly worth a try.
Chris > On Apr 9, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Guys, > > I've got a Linux server which I need to be able to edit a few configuration > files on via SSH. Yeah, I probably could try to look up a way to download > the files to my mac locally, open them in Text Edit, edit them, then reupload > them to the server as the modified versions, but then you stand a chance of > ownerships getting kurfunctified, and worse, permissions going screw on me, > thus making me have to chmod everything back to normal. What a pain in the > behaunkis, especially if I don't know the permissions and owner to start > with. The problem I'm having is, everything works fine. I can use > Voiceover all day long to read the terminal window in detail, but as soon as > I go into nano, or pico, or God forbid, vi/vim, things start getting kind a > weird. As I arrow in all four directions around the conf file, I find that > what is being read isn't quite normally where my actual cursor is located. > Usually the insertion point will be either a line above or below, or a > character before or after. It's quite inconsistent what it does, so I can't > exactly give you a definite pattern. I've been kind of learning to deal with > it, but it's at the point now, where it is becoming incredibly annoying, and > I do mean, incredibly! I'm seeing this both on Mavericks, and! on Yosemite. > I definitely do have Voiceover set to read the character that the cursor is > under, not the one it passes. Obviously, because of this behavior, this > means, if I'm not extra extra careful, I'll wind up either deleting something > I don't mean to, uncommenting things I don't need/want to, inserting things > where they don't belong, or worst case scenareo, totally booger bucking up > the file to the point where I run whatever is attached to the configuration, > and garbage in, garbage out, bad data in, puke comes out. So, is there > really an easy way to consistently via SSH use a text editer to edit conf > files? If not, then I'm really screwed, I guess, mainly because I don't have > the hardware resources right now to run a full fledged Linux system, and I'm > neither at a position, unfortunately, where I can reliably run a virtual > machine either. Even if I could, the server I need to access isn't on my > localhost, so I'd have to SSH in anyway, one way or another. > > Any help is profusely! appreciated. > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
