Getting vim to work correctly.

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-09-28 13:45, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass at teledomenet.gr> wrote:
>On Friday 28 September 2007 11:56, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>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...
>
> Nothing weird, same here with every terminal I have installed(xterm,
> Eterm & konsole). You should instal Vim if you want the old behaviour.

Indeed.  After Nikos' post I reread the original.  Jay, what you are
describing is:

    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.

This is expected behavior if you are using /usr/bin/vi.

> Keep in mind that nvi is a different program.  Why don't you
> install Vim?

Indeed, if vim's behavior is desired, then it may be a good idea to
install vim.  I usually keep around an installation of editors/vim-lite
for those rare occassions that I have managed to break my local Emacs
installation beyond repair :-)