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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers vi down arrow key not working Post 37755 by RTM on Friday 27th of June 2003 11:40:48 AM
Old 06-27-2003
Another interesting behavior -


Customer complaint
Quote:
GNOME Terminal SOLARIS: Arrow keys broken when using INSERT mode in vi.

To Reproduce:
1] Open Gnome-terminal, vi file1 .
2] Press i to set insert mode & type .e.g. gnome.
3] Press arrow keys, the letters A/B/C/D are inserted onto a new line in the
file and user cannot position cursor using these keys.

This is not the behaviour of vi in gnome-terminal on Linux or in dtterm on
either cde or gnome on Solaris, it appears to be specific to gnome-terminal on
SOLARIS.
So if you use dtterm, you can get that function - but only if your TERM variable is set to dtterm.
 

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RXTELNET(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       RXTELNET(1)

NAME
rxtelnet -- start a telnet and forward X-connections. SYNOPSIS
rxtelnet [-l username] [-k] [-t telnet_args] [-x xterm_args] [-K kx_args] [-w term_emulator] [-b telnet_program] [-n] [-v] host [port] DESCRIPTION
The rxtelnet program starts an xterm window with a telnet to host host. From this window you will also be able to run X clients that will be able to connect securely to your X server. If port is given, that port will be used instead of the default. If setting up the X forwarding failes, rxtelnet will still telnet in to the remote host, but without X forwarding. The supported options are: -l Log in on the remote host as user username. -k Disables keep-alives. -t Send telnet_args as arguments to telnet. -x Send xterm_args as arguments to xterm. -X Send kx_args as arguments to kx. -w Use term_emulator instead of xterm. -b Use telnet_program instead of telnet. -n Do not start any terminal emulator. -v Be verbose. EXAMPLE
To login from host foo (where your display is) to host bar, you might do the following. 1. On foo: rxtelnet bar 2. You will get a new window with a telnet to bar. In this window you will be able to start X clients. SEE ALSO
kx(1), rxterm(1), telnet(1), tenletxr(1), kxd(8) KTH_KRB March 7, 2004 KTH_KRB
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