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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:42:49 +0000
From: Doug VanLeuven <roamdad AT attglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin-1.3.19 fixed vim bug! Thankyou!
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
> At 20:49 2003-01-25, Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> 
> >Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > >
> > > At 15:39 2003-01-25, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > > >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > > > > At 07:24 PM 1/24/2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > > > >> First, I'd like to say thanks for fixing a long-standing bug in vim:
> > > > >> Using the arrow keys in insert mode cancelled it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hm, a quick check here with cygwin 1.3.17 and vim 6.1 doesn't show
> > > > > this problem.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're doing?
> > > >
> > > >I doubt it. I don't have an old Cygwin around to verify this, but
> > since the
> > > >bug is gone now, it doesn't matter really.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Max.
> > >
> > > Max,
> > >
> > > There is (or was) more to this than the simple unconditional, uniform
> > > occurrence of the symptom you report, since I've never seen them either
> > > (in any version of Cygwin or Vim), and I use arrow keys in insert
> > mode plenty.
> > >
> > > Randall Schulz
> > >
> >I didn't see it either until I set up a new installation where
> >there was no vimrc in any of the places vim looks.
> >Seems it only happened when vim is in vi compatibility mode.
> >
> >...
> >
> >
> >Try it out.
> >Run vim.  set compatible. Either command window or rxvt although they
> >each behave slightly differently.
> >
> >vim in cygwin TERM insert mode leftarrow yeilds E388: Definition not
> >found upkey just breaks out of insert mode.
> >
> >vim in rxvt yeilds an inserted line above plus A or B or C or D
> >depending on which arrow.
> >
> >then put back vim. set nocompatible. vim will be ok.
> 
> Doug,
> 
> I don't think there's a bug involved here. Vi didn't handle arrow keys
> in insert mode, thus the ESC that signals the beginning of any arrow or
> function key takes Vi (but not Vim) out of insert mode.
> 
> Randy

Sorry for the faux paus.  You are correct in that this is vim's
behavior on all the platforms I could check out.

How soon we forget.

Jees.  Is my memory going or did vi get past that stage with
the introduction of SysV?

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