On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:46 PM, Shawn Price wrote:

Jason,
 I too manage all of our AIX servers from OS X and have had no problem
with
using VI on the Mac side. To get into insert mode you just hit 'I' and
'esc'
to get into command mode. But if you are using emacs or something
else, I'm
just talking out my fanny.

Shawn

From: Jason Lee <english AT ANIM.DREAMWORKS DOT COM>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:47:42 -0700
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: OS X Insert Key

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Richard Sims wrote:

This may seem trivial, but it drives me nuts....

I administer my TSM servers from a Mac OS X box via the built in
terminal program. The "Insert" key on a mac is marked "Help" and
doesn't put the command line editor into insert mode (doesn't give
much
in the way of help either, but I digress). This is a real pain when
the
lines you are inputting are anything more than a few characters
long.

So, my question is.. is there a way to send an insert key sequence
from
a mac or, failing that, get the editor to default to insert mode
(like
it should ;-) )

Thanks for any help on this!

Jason - Try doing Ctrl+Help to effect an Insert keystroke, to toggle
        insertion on and off.

  Richard Sims, BU

Thanks for responding Richard, but that doesn't seem to work either.
Bummer.


Jason

Yup, that's no problem.. the issue is using the line editor inside
dsmadmc. I *wish* there was a key sequence like in vi rather than
having to use the dreaded insert key.


Thanks


Jason