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From: psc@lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Setting variables for a running process
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 17:40:09 EDT
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Summary: :set term not healthy in vi 3.9

< Smokey the Bar says, "Help stamp out software pirates" [squish!] >

> As you've probably gathered by now you can't reset your TERM variable
> in the current process.
> 
> However, in vi there IS a way to change your terminal type.
> The way to do it is to go into ex, change it and go back into vi.
> The commands are :
> 
> Q			(put's you in ex)
> set term=term_name
> vi			(put's you in vi)

Alas!  In version 3.9 of vi (the first well distributed version to use
terminfo), that confuses the list of mappings *very* badly.  Don't do
it.
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