>On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:53:05PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: >>I unfortunately have a lot of data to type in, and to my surprise >>the keypad is unuseable in vi. It doesn't even work in vim. Thank >>god it works on Irix--I thought I would be using ee. >> >>Anyways, here is what happens when I type the digits 1-9 on the >>keypad while in insert mode.. >> >>y >>x >>w >>v >>u >>t >>s >>r >>q > >You don't say what terminal emulator you're using, but with xterm, the >"application keypad" option gets enabled when entering vi, which prevents >the keypad from generating numbers. You can change it once in vi with >the <Ctrl>+left-button menu. I haven't looked into this sufficiently >to know the direct cause of this behaviour. Maybe it could be avoided >by tuning the termcap entry? Maybe 'vi' (as the application) should >interpret the sequences in the correct way?
This was using the xterm termcap entry. Although when I login to other machines running DU4.0 or Irix6, vi works without touching anything. Regardless, I would be inclined to blame this on our vi. I don't understand much about tercap entries, but this certainly violates POLA. :( So does this mean that the default xterm entry should be different? Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
