Getting vim to work correctly.

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-09-27 23:05, Jay Chandler <lists at sequestered.net> wrote:
> Eric Schuele wrote:
>> On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote:
>>> Howdy.
>>> Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone
>>> know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working
>>> correctly in vim?
>>> 
>>> It works in Linux, drives me nuts in FreeBSD...
>>
>> They work perfectly fine here.  How is it you expect those keys to
>> behave?  Define "working correctly".
>
> When in insert mode, and pagedown is pressed, the letter the cursor is
> over is capitalized, and the editor is removed from insert mode, as an
> example.
> 
> PageUp capitalizes the letter next to it, and again removes me from
> insert mode.
> 
> Home randomly capitalizes letters and shifts the cursor to the next
> letter.
> 
> Insert decapitalizes the letter the cursor is over.
> 
> Weird behavior like this...
> 
> I was mistaken in that this is in vim-- this is in the natural version
> of vi that ships with the base OS.
> 
> This is happening from PuTTY in default setting mode on a Windows
> box-- my MacBook is relatively better behaved.

This is usually a configuration error related to the $TERM setup of the
client, so what's your terminal set to in the PuTTY setup of Windows?