Question about vi macros
Alex Crain
alex at wolf.umbc.edu
Mon Apr 17 10:01:02 AEST 1989
In article <1915 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia at umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>Now my question is this: How can I get the first column in the listing
>to display "Next_Screen" or something like it, as the folks who wrote vi
>were able to do with their key definitions?
Sorry, you can't. Terminals are all described in the file
/etc/termcap, and there are fields for the left, right, up, and down
keys. When vi starts up, it binds to the "left" key, not ^[[0A or
whatever it is on you're terminal. Since there is no termcap field for
a "next page" key, you have to bind to ^[F~, with no name.
:alex
Alex Crain
Systems Programmer alex at umbc3.umbc.edu
Univ Md Baltimore County umbc3.umbc.edu!nerwin!alex
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