On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:54:58PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Correct.
I don't think so; see my response to him.
> The other thing is that arrow keys send multibyte character sequences,
> not single characters. ...
> ...
> The hueristic in curses is to watch the timing - if these characters
> arrive close enough together they are considered an arrow key.
> ...
> However, over a remote connection (telnet, ssh, busy serial line,
> whatever) almost arbitrary timing gaps may appear between the charaters
> and the curses program (vi in your example) can misread things.
>
> Avoid the arrow keys - they are EEEEEVIL!
Hmm. All I'll say is that in more than 20 years of using vi over any sort
of comm link you can imagine--and some you probably can't--this has never
been a problem I've encountered.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
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