Screen and VI

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun May 25 06:44:20 PDT 2003


On Sat, 24 May 2003, Chris Hill wrote:

> 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).

Here's a link to a January post of mine about how to fix the "extra"
keys for the console (no line wrap):

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1467030+0+archive/2003/freebsd-questions/20030202.freebsd-questions

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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