In the past when I accessed Unix systems, I found that it was necessary to add some cursor delay. I don't know if this applies in your case, but there are a number of terminal settings as well, and you may need to be sure the settings on your client are matching those on the system to which you are connecting.
Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 07:38:07 -0400, Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk 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 computer locally, open them in Notepad, 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, whether I use Putty, or any other >SSH terminal client I've so far found, everything works fine. I can use >the mouse pointer or the W E cursor 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 file, I find that what is being read isn't quite normally where my >actual cursor is located. Usually the cursor 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! Obviously, 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, totally booger bugging 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. >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve.jacobson% 40visi.com. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
