On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:09:19AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > It is broken compared to current vi. > > Compared to vim, you mean, yeah? > It has been a long time, but I'm fairly sure that the last AT&T SysVr4 > version of vi I used handled up/down arrows gracefully too. And I > think it did it simply by mapping them to the codes to shift out of > insert mode, move and shift back in - but I don't recall how it knew > which mode to set after the motion. I know the vi on the solaris machines I have to deal with every now and then (Solaris 8, mostly) certainly doesn't do it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
