Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!tiamat!jim From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: vi and rlogin Message-ID: <853@tiamat.fsc.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 13:22:57 GMT References: <852@tiamat.fsc.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Ahlstrom Filtration - Chattanooga,TN Lines: 31 In article , rharmon@srg (Robert B. Harmon x4964) writes: > > I believe rlogin eats ESCs so arrow keys (instead of klhj) will not > work. > > The telnet command implements a virtual terminal protocol and > arrow keys will work. I received the suggestion to use :set notimeout in vi, and sure enough, it works just great (although I do have to hit ESC twice sometimes to get out of INPUT MODE, but that's a small trade off for being able to use my arrows keys with rlogin). > Perhaps this should be a FAQ is probably is already somewhere. > In article <852@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes: > >> > >> I remember seeing something about this once, so I checked the FAQ and > >> it wasn't there, so I'll ask again. > >> > > :) :) Of course emacs doesn't have this problem :) :) One of these days I'll probably install emacs, but I'm still reluctant to have more than one OS on a machine at a time. :-) ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@tiamat.fsc.com Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc. 615/821-4022 x. 651