an editor that doesn't require any esc or control keys to be used...

[FRamsay at castelhq.com (FRamsay at castelhq.com)]

>On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:44:33PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>> At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly:
>> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:54:59PM -0400, FRamsay at castelhq.com wrote:
>> > > I'm looking for an editor that doesn't require any esc or control
keys to
>> > > be used, preferably one that comes by default in redhat
>> > > Does anyone know of one?
>> >
>> > ed, ex, and sed fit the bill.
>>
>> Um, yeah, I guess those are editors.  Sorta...  ;-)
>
>*shrug*.  Every sysadmin should at least know enough about ed to do basic
>file editing.

This is true, but I'm _not_ a sysadmin and have no desire to become one :)

For the record, backspace still work, and the arrow keys 'kinda' works,
they
move the cursor around the page but won't scroll a document in an editor
(the
cursor wraps back around to the top or bottom of the screen).  After doing
some digging I discovered that ESC is captured by the telnet client to
bring
up a 'telnet settings' menu.  So using this menu I was able to map F5 to
send
ESC and F9-F11 to send Ctrl-X, Ctrl-S, and Ctrl-C respetivly.  I still need
to figure out how to map page up several other keys to get an editor fully
working, but I have vi and emacs partially working.  (using esc-X goto-line
to scroll the document is getting really old)

                    -fjr


Frank Ramsay
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