[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151014: questions about locale settings and vi editing command's issues.

[Paul B. Henson]

> From: Tim Rice
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:45 AM
>
> Pressing the arrow keys will only do what you expect in command mode.

Unless you disable compatibility mode, in which case you can happily
navigate with the arrow keys while in edit mode, presumably just as you are
used to doing under linux.

> Now on a OmniOS (and every other *NIX I know) console the arrow keys send
> an ESC as the first character of their sequence so you end up in command
mode.

I don't know the internal details, but I assume vim interprets "ESC+arrow
key stuff" as a movement command even in edit mode rather than reverting to
command mode and doing random stuff based on the keys following the ESC...