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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: wide-screen vi
Keywords: 3B1 unixpc vi editor
Message-ID: <417@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 05:34:23 GMT
References: <135@cjsa.WA.COM>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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In article <135@cjsa.WA.COM> jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (C. Jeffery Small) writes:
>Has anyone been able to successfully set up for wide-screen vi editing
>session on the console?

>The editor fires up with the new font and handles the
>120 column width and sets a 25 line window.  However, there are problems

[details omitted]

I don't know if this is your problem or not, but I found out that to get an
odd-sized font to work right in vi the window has to be sized very carefully.
Sizing with the mouse using a skinny font can result in a window slightly
bigger than termcap thinks your line is long -- & this causes it to get its
leedul self most yuckily confused!  Try using windy to size your window to
the exact number of pixels needed to get the number of columns you've told
termcap you've got.  See if this helps.
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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