When in vi in FreeBSD, the cursor does not echo digits while using the l key to move right. It echos letters and punctuations just fine. It is kind of strange when you edit something containing numerals because you hear nothing at all while hitting l as you move through them. I used a P.C. running MSdos, a screen reader, an Echo speech synthesizer and MSKermit to run a talking VT100 terminal. I used this for many years and did find a few odd behavior that could be traced to interactions between the kermit emulator and the screen reader so I didn't think that much about them until I moved to vinux which is about as different of a method from the old system as one can get and this behavior continues. If you run screen, screen does redraw all printable characters as you cursor over them but the straight console behavior is to redraw only letters and punctuation marks in vi. Another part of the behavior which is related is that one does not hear the bell on hitting Escape in command mode or when hitting the end of the line with the cursor. It is as if there is some sort of mask in effect. The shell and other programs that produce output ring the bell and display all printable characters with no issues that I can see so it is just vi in FreeBSD that is displaying this behavior. Has anybody else observed this? Better yet, did you fix it? The screen utility is wonderful but with multiple consoles, one sometimes logs in to a system and edits a file with just the terminal emulation of the console. In Linux, vi echos all characters. I don't know if the FreeBSD behavior in vi is peculiar to all BSD OS's or not. Mac OS under Leopard is a BSD-related version of Unix and it behaves normally with vi. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list