vi Alternative Required

[Kenneth Herron]

rbottin at atl.calstate.edu (Richard John Botting) writes:

>...I have been teaching
>vi to PC and Mac users (mainly Comp Sci Majors) for 4 or 5 years and have
>come to the conclusion that I need a tape recording that says:

>	DON'T TOUCH THE ARROW KEYS!

>To say nothing of Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, Page Down.

And from the exception-to-every-rule department:

The vi included with System V/386 (3.2.1 in my case), which runs on 80386-
equipped AT-compatibles, recognizes the Insert, Home, Page Up, and Page 
Down keys in or out of insert mode.  You can actually move around in the 
file without leaving insert mode (What'll they think of next? :-).

Insert enters insert mode, Home goes to the top left of the screen,
PgUp and PgDn move by pages, and the arrow keys move by lines/characters,
just as you'd expect.  End just beeps, and Delete generates a DEL char,
which does nothing useful in my case.

The 12 function keys, of course, can be mapped via the usual map 
mechanism.
-- 
Kenneth Herron                                            kherron at ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky                                        (606) 257-2975
Department of Mathematics 
I just proved Fermat's last theorem, but .signatures can only be four lines.