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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Searching for the "ideal" terminal
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Date: Sun, 3-May-87 17:22:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 17:22:41 1987
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>The terminal is *always* in "normal" mode. That is, you must send it
>codes to get high intensity. What I need is a terminal that is
>*always* high intensity (forget video brightness!). I know that you
>can send a code to the AAA to do this, but it is only temporary. After
>the first escape to the shell from vi, it's all lost.

What it seems you should do is alter the termcap entry so that it
doesn't clear (or more precisely that it sets only) high-intensity
mode when exiting "visual" mode.  The "ve" field in termcap is the
culprit.  (If you have terminfo, the same advice applies, but I don't
know the name of the field in question.)

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