On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Hauke Fath wrote:
>
> > While we are at it: I find that moving around with the cursor keys on
> > mac68k frequently inserts keys, as if vi had dropped part of the escape
> > sequence. Having to resort to 'hjkl' makes the vi experience even worse...
>
> I don't use the Mac's console much, but I see the same thing over
> "ssh" over "ppp". I haven't had much luck getting mapped keys to
> behave reasonably over a slow link, myself, but the settings to play
> with are "keytime", "escapetime", and "timeout". ["escapetime" doesn't
> seem to be documented -- I just now got that out of the source. Now I
> see why "keytime" didn't work for me, before...] So the setting to
> make mappings that start with <escape> act like other mappings:

It's actually not completely undocumented -- "escapetime" is described
in "/usr/share/doc/usd/13.viref", and this same question is even in
the vi FAQ, which is however only in the sources, not installed.

Frederick