On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:21:01PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:21:01 +0100 Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckless_AT_ecki.to> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 03:42:40PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> > > What are you using this insert mode for?
> >
> > I access some machines remotely and I don't want to install the terminfo
> > entry on all of them (some of which belong to customers and I wouldn't
> > even want to temper with their system). So I simply set TERM=vt220 when
> > on the remote machine. Insert mode is used by nvi and traditional vi
> > among others.
>
> Ok, that seems like a legit feature. Which applications you encountered are
> using this mode? Only nvi and vi?
I don't use too many term{cap,info} apps on remote machines. But from
the nature of insert mode I would assume that mainly editors would use
it. A quick test on my own system showed no other editor using insert
mode though.
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Eckehard Berns
Received on Thu Nov 15 2012 - 17:07:18 CET