problem with vi
by centguy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MM6B)
I am on Ubuntu. Recently I find that vim/vi is broken in the sense that the
movement of cursor within the text is extremely slow. I have to wait for one second for the
cursor to down one row when I press the j or the down arrow key.
This happens for the left, right, up or down key. I have to wait for the cursor to jump one
last step before I start typing. As you can imagine, this is driving me nuts who has used vi for so many years!
This is totally unacceptable.
I do not know how vi is broken.
I have set :set ttyfast but it is not helpful at all.
the options in vi are:
Quote:
I do not believe the keyboard has any issue since I edit this message using the same keyboard
on this forum site but the cursor movement is almost instantaneous!
movement of cursor within the text is extremely slow. I have to wait for one second for the
cursor to down one row when I press the j or the down arrow key.
This happens for the left, right, up or down key. I have to wait for the cursor to jump one
last step before I start typing. As you can imagine, this is driving me nuts who has used vi for so many years!
This is totally unacceptable.
I do not know how vi is broken.
I have set :set ttyfast but it is not helpful at all.
the options in vi are:
Quote:
| helplang=en nomodeline ruler scroll=32 ttyfast ttymouse=sgr backspace=indent,eol,start fileencoding=utf-8 fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1 printoptions=paper:a4 suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc |
on this forum site but the cursor movement is almost instantaneous!