Path: utzoo!attcan!nebulus!tslanpar!ram
From: ram@tslanpar.UUCP (R. Meesters, Tech Support, Lanpar Toronto Ontario Canada)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: curses/termcap vs. autowrap on DEC terminals
Keywords: autowrap vt220 vt240 vt340 vt330 curses termcap
Message-ID: <162@tslanpar.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 13:59:22 GMT
References: <853@per2.UUCP> <4065@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: TSLanpar,Toronto,Ontario
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In article <4065@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> This is in fact required... suppose 'vi' is displaying a long line. It gets to
> column 80 and wants to put the next character at column 1 on the next line. If
> autowrap is on, it's there. If autowrap is off, it has to send a CR and an LF.
> 
> If you tell vi the terminal has no autowrap when it in fact does, it will put
> a blank line in the middle of any line longer than 80 characters.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but remember, NewLine must be enabled in the
terminal.  If not, rather than sending a CR and LF, the terminal will simply
overprint the 80th charachter until it reaches the end of the line.  If 
autowrap is enabled and newline disabled, the line will wrap around without
any blank lines displayed.

Regards,

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