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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Screen 2.0 change
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Date: 26 Mar 91 19:41:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.203404.21113@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar19.164204.21361@eci386.uucp> <1991Mar25.220138.5308@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Mar25.220138.5308@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
> Well, I think the original response discussion has settled... Is it just me,
> or has anyone else noticed problems with auto-wrap terminals and SunOS4.1x
> curses? Specifically, vi tends to emit an extra linefeed when drawing 80+
> column lines, making the actual screen appearance different from what vi
> thinks is onscreen. When you cursor up and down it also tends to forget
> where line 1 is, and you can't move the cursor all the way to the physical
> line 1. 

The DEC vt100 has a very strange set of line-wrap behaviours, and attempts
to properly emulate them or deal with them are a frequent cause of problems.
I think you should set the terminal to "no wrap" and let screen handle the
wrapping itself.

Basically, if you have any options available as to what terminal to use
or emulate, DON'T make it a DEC (or a Televideo/adm type, either). Emulate
something based on ANSI X3.64, (with the ISO Latin-1 character set, if
possible).
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