[pups] jove editor under 2.11BSD and cursor keys
Charles H Dickman
chd_1 at nktelco.net
Tue Jan 6 19:01:45 CST 2009
Johnny Billquist wrote:
> And most proper emacs (and clone) users don't use the arrow keys, but
> use ^P, ^N, ^F and ^B. So this particular problem don't show. :-)
>
I have only used vi with 2.11bsd, but have learned to not use the arrows
keys or pg up, pg dn. They work in insert mode as long as you press and
release slowly... Once autorepeat kicks in, one of the ESC eventually
causes a transition to normal mode and you end up inserting a bunch of
crap into the file. I seem to recall lots of ^B.
An unfortunate effect of using the ESC for both a mode change and a key
prefix.
-chuck
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