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From: rosen@cs.utexas.edu (Eric Carl Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacLayers VT100 problem
Summary: shift-click
Message-ID: <1322@paducah.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:07:50 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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>BTW does anyone know how layers decides to go into "vi" (fixed window)
>mode.  It goes into "vi" mode with emacs, which bugs me since emacs
>could handle window size changes (I'd at least like to try it).

I believe it decides to go into "vi" mode whenever it receives a VT-100
escape sequence that moves the cursor up. It seems to drop out of "vi"
mode whenever a terminal scroll is generated (causing the entire terminal
to scroll up by pressing [RETURN] on the last line). You can resize the
window in "vi" mode by holding down <shift> when you click in the grow-box.
I haven't tried this with E-macs, but vi certainly gets confused when you
do this. It is much safer, although less convenient, to adjust your window
size _before_ running your curses-compatible program.