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From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 18:01:57 EST


Eben King wrote:

>
>
> All that is true. If you do any work on Solaris machines, it looks a bit
> different (no syntax highlighting) and may work a bit different (but I
> haven't uncovered that yet). Also, if you try to use an editor through
> an SSH connection, your terminal may be messed up, and control keys may
> not work at all. This includes the arrow keys, as they send some
> sequence starting with escape (^[). Under such circumstances, emacs
> won't work at all, and you'll have to use h/j/k/l to move around in vim.

This problem must be particular to Solaris. I use vim across SSH on my
Debian GNU/Linux machines all the time, and I've done so with other
distributions as well without any problems. Is this perhaps a problem
specific to the vi(m) and/or ssh variant(s) used by Solaris?

--
Chad



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