> Hi,
>
> at work there is Solaris machine with an oler vim installed. I am
> neither sysadmin nor can I acchieve root privileges.
I used a Solaris system for years without root privileges and was
still able to install everything I needed in my ~/bin, ~/man, etc.
directories.
> When starting vim (terminal) and trying to type anything else than
> printable characters, these characters are inserted as
> control-sequence but they are not "executed" (read: Cursor arrow down
> does not move the cursor down but inserts its control sequence).
>
> >echo $TERM
> at the console says "xterm". CDE is used (motif).
It appears that the terminfo entry for xterm does not match the
behavior of the terminal you're using. What are you really using?
It may also be that the terminfo database on your Solaris system is
poorly maintained and doesn't have the correct or complete
description of an xterm.
There are several possible solutions to this.
First, make sure that the value of $TERM matches the terminal you're
using.
Next, check that the terminfo database exists and is correct for
that terminal. You can execute the "infocmp" command to see the
terminfo description of your terminal. You can also execute Vim's
":set termcap" command to see Vim's idea of your terminal's
capabilities. These usually come from the terminfo database but Vim
sometimes fills in some values from it's built-in terminal
information.
If the terminfo database information is wrong for your terminal, you
can look in the database for a terminal description that more
closely matches your terminal. Then you can just set TERM to that
name. Alternatively, you can build your own terminfo database from
publicly-available sources or your own description, but that may be
more than you want to tackle for now.
> Is there any chance to tweak, so that such things work without
> remapping each charcter, which does not work, to a command sequence?
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
I don't understand what does not work.
One way to create your own mappings for the arrow keys, for example,
is to put in your ~/.vimrc at set of lines like these,
map OD <Left>
map OC <Right>
map OA <Up>
map OB <Down>
where for each of those I typed "map ", then Ctrl-V, then hit the
actual arrow key to be mapped, then a space and Vim's name for that
key.
Instead of mapping each key, you could set Vim's termcap name for
each key like this:
set t_kl= OD
set t_kr= OC
set t_ku= OA
set t_kd= OB
where again I inserted the key's character sequence by typing Ctrl-V
then hitting the arrow key.
Those are just some ideas since I don't know exactly what the
problem is nor what constraints your under.
HTH,
Gary
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