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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:17:17+00:00

I use vim (7.1) on OpenVMS V7.3-2. I connect to VMS trough a telnet

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I use vim (7.1) on OpenVMS V7.3-2.

I connect to VMS trough a telnet session with SmartTerm, a terminal emulator.

It works fine.

But when I start a telnet session from a VMS session (connected via SmartTerm) to another VMS session, some keys doesn’t work properly.

|--------------| telnet   |-------------| telnet   |-----------------| |  Smartterm   | ------>  | VMS, Vim OK | ------>  | VMS, Vim broken | |--------------|          |-------------|          |-----------------|

Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp and PageDown are like ~ in normal mode ( upcase to lowercase or vice-versa )

Any idea ?

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Edit

I just realized that I didn’t mention that the second telneted session is on the same VMS box.

I do that because I need to do something with rights from another user.

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  1. In addition to tweaking which terminal emulation is used, it’s also a good idea to learn vim’s keystrokes for the actions you’re trying to perform. These are more reliable and don’t depend on the terminal or the keyboard. For instance:

    • Insert: i
    • Home: ^ goes to first non-whitespace char, 0 goes to first column always
    • End: $
    • PageUp, PageDown: ctrl-u, ctrl-d move a half-page at a time
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