Re: [OT] Linux help

[Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 October 2003 13:55, Stuart Grimshaw wrote:

> In edit mode, useing the cursor keys results in the letters A B C
& D being
> inserted in the line above where you are typing.

That's coz the cursor keys send codes like ^[OA, which vim interprets as
"stop. open new line. insert A" ;)

> I've read all about :set term=cons25, but that makes no difference.

Nop,e that's for BSD.

Firstly, make sure your TERM environment variable accurately reflects the
terminal you're using, and make sure you have a termcap entry for it.

Then try setting 8 bit mode in the terminal. Do stty -a and if there's a
cs8
in there you're ok, otherwise do 'stty cs8 -istrip' to enable 8 bit mode. I
think for xterm you can also do this by mucking about with its xresources.

If that doesn't help, try ':help vt100-cursor-keys' in vim and see what
that
does for you.

As a final resort (this is what I have to do to use vim with rxvt under
cygwin
on 'doze) change the insert-mode keymap to map the key sequence that vim
sees
for the given key to the corresponding motion, eg

:imap ^[OA ^Ok

(to type that it's CTRL-V UP SPACE CTRL-O k)

Similarly map down to j, left to h, and right to l.

I'm sure there's a better way, but I can't be arsed investing the time
looking
for it.


cheers


ant

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