Screen and VI

Aaron Peterson aaron at alpete.com
Sat May 24 15:46:02 PDT 2003


> > Anyone know why, while in screen if i move the cursor (arrow key on 
> > keyboard) right i get the letter C ? (inside vi)
> -- 

> I've personally been wondering why some keys don't seem to work for me
> at the console or anywhere else for freebsd.  the primary offenders are
> the non-alphanumerics like backspace often gives me "~" instead of a
> backspace, The home/end pgup/pgdown and arrow keys in vi give me fits,
> etc...  did i choose the wrong keyboard type at some point?  i've looked
> through the keyboard configuration options in sysinstall but other
> choices seemed worse rather than better. i don't think that's what i'm
> looking for is it?
> 
> aaron
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okay, a little white lie there -->  del produces the "~"s not backspace :)


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