Problem with vi screen updates
root
root at ozdaltx.UUCP
Tue Oct 9 02:56:14 AEST 1990
I'm havn't played with vi on a 386, but the 286 version also shows the
same problem. If you use the arrow key rather than j,k,l,h to
position the cursor, you shouldn't have this problem. I believe the
termcap defs for vt terms and ansi both output an \E[ sequence then
the arrow keys are used. ESC, to vi, is used to take you out of
update mode. If your keyboard has repeat, I suspect what happens is
that vi's command buffer can't catch up with the strings that contain
ESC characters and it changes modes on you or you get the beeps.
I just hit the arrow keys for each movement I need, that seems to
work.
Hope this helps some -
Scotty
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