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From: phils@athena.mit.EDU (Philip  Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xterm/Vi problem
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Date: 6 Feb 91 19:14:18 GMT
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>	When editing files with "vi" in a "xterm" window, which contain
>	lines longer than the width of the xterm window, it becomes
>	very difficult to see what you are actually editing.

It's a "misfeature" of the xterm termap entry.  You need to define
the auto-margin (am) capability.  Ater setting your termcap you can
just append this definition.  In my login I have the following:

    set noglob;
    eval `tset -s -I -Q -m 'switch:?vt100' -m 'network:?xterm'`
    setenv TERMCAP "$TERMCAP"am:    # this makes Vi in xterms happy.
    unset noglob;

Hope it works for you.

Philip Thompson
Dept. Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT