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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:05:24 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin-1.3.19 fixed vim bug! Thankyou!
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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 


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