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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Vi Editor Post 302594068 by methyl on Monday 30th of January 2012 10:36:19 AM
Old 01-30-2012
To get the cursor keys working in "vi" , you need to create a ".exrc" file in your home directory which contains the mapping from what your keyboard generates to what "vi" expects. This is sort of described in "man ex" (noting that "vi" is an invocation of "ex") but not easy to follow.

Here is an example of such a file for a DEC vt220 keyboard but viewed in a manner which makes control codes visible. The "$" is just the normal text file end-of-line character made visible.
The first four lines map the arrow keys. The fifth line maps the insert key. The last two lines map page up and page down.
Code:
sed -n l .exrc
map \033[A k$
map \033[B j$
map \033[D h$
map \033[C l$
map \033[2~ i$
map \033[5~ \002$
map \033[6~ \006$


Code:
In the above example
\033 is the Escape key
\002 is ctrl/B  (page up in "vi")
\006 is ctrl/F  (page down in "vi")


The "backspace" key may need to be sorted with a "stty erase" command in your profile or in the settings of your real terminal. Depends on where it works and where it does not work.
 

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libgtkhtml-editor

libgtkthml-editor(3)						C Library Functions					      libgtkthml-editor(3)

NAME

       libgtkthml-editor, libgtkhtml - GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine.

DESCRIPTION

       libgtkthml-editor  is  a  HTML  rendering/editing  library.  It is not designed to be a fully featured HTML browser/editor.  Instead, it is
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ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWevolution-libs	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO

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NOTES

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       Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

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