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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris, vi (not vim), key bindings Post 302402182 by alex.blackbit on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 05:57:53 AM
Old 03-09-2010
Solaris, vi (not vim), key bindings
hi,

i am facing a problem that (i think) many people had before.
under linux i use vim and therefor i am used to be able to use the cursor, delete and backspace keys in edit mode.
that's not the case in the classic vi, e.g. under solaris. when hitting these keys, uninteded char sequences are produced.
i managed to fix the cursor keys with this:
Code:
$ cat ~/.exrc
:map! ^[OA ^[ka
:map! ^[OB ^[ja
:map! ^[OC ^[la
:map! ^[OD ^[ha
$

^ please note that ^[ must be produced with ctrl-v + ESC.

so far so good, but what i'd like to have too are the delete and backspace keys.
i'd like the same behavior like in vim in the nocompatible mode.
delete should delete the char under the cursor, the cursor shouldn't move.
backspace should delete the char left of the cursor, the cursor moved to the left.

any ideas very welcome.
thanks in advance.
 

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VIMTUTOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       VIMTUTOR(1)

NAME

       vimtutor - the Vim tutor

SYNOPSIS

       vimtutor [-g] [language]

DESCRIPTION

       Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor.  It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file.

       The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.

       The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is
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       /usr/local/lib/vim/tutor/tutor.vim
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AUTHOR

       The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado  School  of  Mines	using  ideas  supplied	by
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