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From: frank@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Using a vt220 clone with unix vi?
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.093524.1424@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 7 Mar 91 08:35:24 GMT
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Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <pln.668280591@egret1>, pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) writes:
> 
> I have a colleague who has recently started using a Sun computer
> by means of a VT220 clone terminal.  This terminal has problems
> dealing with vi because the ESC key doesn't send the ESC character
> in VT220 mode.  Instead it sends a four-character escape sequence
> that confuses vi mightily.
> 
On a real vt220 you can use CTRL-3 or CTRL-[ as an alternative to the missing
ESC key. Most clones also have an alternative, especially the CTRL-[, which
is the ASCII control sequence of ESC. Hope this helps.
-Robert

Robert Frank, Institut for Informatics, University of Basel, Switzerland
frank@urz.unibas.ch