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- From: paul@wellserv.atl.ga.us (Paul Wells)
- Subject: Re: X11 Unusable under AMIX??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.092634.4292@wellserv.atl.ga.us>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:26:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.182711.3509@wellserv.atl.ga.us> <Bradb.0oxb@nesbbx.rain.COM>
- Organization: Wells Services Company Limited
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- In <Bradb.0oxb@nesbbx.rain.COM> Bradb@nesbbx.rain.COM (**) writes:
- >In <1993Jan23.182711.3509@wellserv.atl.ga.us>, paul@wellserv.atl.ga.us (Paul Wells) writes:
- >> Or, you could use a .exrc which contains 'set notimeout' and the arrow keys
- >> will work consistently. I forget the attribution to this solution; the man
- >> page for ex doesn't mention this option.
- >
- >Wow, thanks for that tidbit. Is there any performance penalty for doing
- >that? [like having to wait longer for the ":" prompt after hiting esc?]
- >
- Yes, vi does not 'timeout', it waits for a subsequent character;
- hence, any screen update that would be performed is delayed.
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- Paul Wells paul@wellserv.atl.ga.us
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