Screen and VI
Chris Hill
chris at monochrome.org
Sat May 24 16:17:04 PDT 2003
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> > > 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
> --
>
> okay, a little white lie there --> del produces the "~"s not backspace :)
It seems that many people, using many editors, often have trouble with
the Insert, Delete, Home, End, PgUp and PgDn keys. I think this may have
something to do with the fact that Unix editors generally were designed
for use with a terminal, which doesn't have these keys.
Unfortunately I can't offer any idea why the arrow keys don't work
properly - they always have for me - but I generally don't even try to
use the Silly Six keys in any Unix editor. Instead, I use the
Ctrl-whatever keys that the editor wants (e.g., ^V in pico rather than
PgDn, or shift-A in vi rather than End).
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Chris Hill chris at monochrome.org
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