what you have here is a terminal issue. i'm curious as to what the contents of your TERM
environment variable are, and what ssh/telnet client you're using to connect to your machine.

vt220 has always done weird things for me in openbsd. vt100, xterm(-color), ansi, and cons25
have all "fixed" that particular issue for me.

in bash, try using "export TERM=vt100" and then run vi again and see if it's any better. also,
try installing the editors/vim package. vim has much improved terminal handling, and stuff.

i was eating a hunk of parmesan, and i laughed really hard, and parmesan came out my nose. better
than root beer.

-Adam

ALERT: (Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:56:58PM -0700) Derek Sivers seen consuming 0.5K bytes about:
> Just recompiled the OpenBSD kernel for my first time.
> (Make "virgin" joke here...) All went well. I didn't change much.
>
> Except now in "vi" the arrows don't work.
> Just says "[[ is not a valid command" and won't move the cursor.
>
> Any idea what might have caused that?
> "vi" doesn't need Linux or FreeBSD compatibility compiled does it?
>
> Everything else works great.
>
>
> (Sorry I didn't just "find out and see" on this one. It's a Pentium
> 133. Each "make" takes an hour.)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>

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