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From: yba@arrow.bellcore.com (Mark Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3, vi and xterm
Summary: "am" not it
Keywords: termcap
Message-ID: <930@sword.bellcore.com>
Date: 10 Nov 88 03:41:05 GMT
References: <8811072211.AA11021@M9-514-1.MIT.EDU> <8811080021.AA13611@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> <10530@haddock.ima.isc.com>
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In article <10530@haddock.ima.isc.com> eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel) writes:
>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....

This is insufficient.  We have "am" in ours, and on long lines, although
wrap occurs and displays properly, the cursor position is incorrect.  I think
we all hope someone else looks into it first....  I even promised Ron Newman
once.  Not sure it isn't a problem with vi.

Eleazor bar Shimon, once and future Carolingian
yba@sabre.bellcore.com