From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mogul.Shasta@Sumex-Aim@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Using the 4025 Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3062 Posted: Wed Sep 1 21:57:10 1982 Received: Thu Sep 9 06:30:36 1982 From: Jeff MogulDate: Monday, 30 Aug 1982 11:52-PDT We once had a 4025 and managed to get vi to run (although not without suffering for it.) The secret seems to be: NEVER use the key. So, we "programmed" the key (extreme right of keyboard) to send "+" (which is equivalent to in command mode) and used the key as much as possible in insert-mode. It's a good idea to hit ctrl/L as often as possible (like when you start and when the screen changes a lot), since the cursor is often placed on the wrong line; usually, repainting the screen from scratch will work right. It turns out that the 4025 will work a LOT better under Gosling's Emacs; one of our programmers spent a good deal of time writing a special driver, which is now part of the standard distribution. Not perfect, but better than vi (because it has knowledge of the terminal's bizarre behaviour.) Fortunately, we only had one 4025 and I haven't seen it in months.