Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bu-cs!root From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: h,j,k,l in vi Message-ID: <204@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 19:54:11 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.204 Posted: Wed Feb 27 19:54:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 03:26:38 EST References: <8242@brl-tgr.ARPA> <726@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <338@psivax.UUCP>, <516@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 18 An un/poorly documented feature of VI (at least this works on our 4.2bsds and SYSV/3B5 systems) is 'set notimeout' which turns off that broken feature and *poof* no more A A or whatever your tty transmits for cursor keys. You are right Guy, it is that attempt to tell you that you hit ESC and didn't mean it. Why didn't the vi implementors follow what the DEC folks always do: if you hit ESC, just drop down to the mode line and say: Are you sure? [net.joke] -Barry Shein, Boston University