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From: eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3, or Where have all the flamers gone?
Message-ID: <10530@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 8 Nov 88 13:23:07 GMT
References: <8811072211.AA11021@M9-514-1.MIT.EDU> <8811080021.AA13611@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <8811080021.AA13611@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) writes:
>> 3)	Xterm and 'vi' STILL don't get along on long lines that wrap around!?
>
>Nobody contributed fixes for this and we didn't have time to look into it
>ourselves (nobody here uses vi).  Attention vi-hackers: you will make new
>friends if you fix this and then give it back to us! 

If this is the bug that I am thinking of, the source of the problem is 
actually a shortcoming in the termcap entry for xterm. I have added the
auto-margin ('am') attribute to all of my termcaps and now vi and xterm
seem to get along just fine. I don't know if SysV systems have this
attribute or an analog, but you have to do something like this to the
terminfo file for xterm to make it work there.

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