Why does the numberic keypad fail to work for 'vi' editor or 'less' when accessed from PuTTy?
Issue
- Why do letters show up in the PuTTy session of
viwhen I enter numbers from keypad? - The numeric keypad works all of the time except whenever editing a file using
vior looking at a file usinglessin PuTTy
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- PuTTy
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