On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 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?
Maybe. I forget where I've run across it, maybe SSHing from Windows.
Somehow I don't think it's a problem with Solaris in particular, any more
than with AIX or BSD or Irix, but Solaris sticks in my mind (probably
because it is my second-most-commonly-used Unixy OS). I vote for odd
termcap settings flummoxing vim and/or the SSH implementation I was using.
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