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From: pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Don Pajerek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm vi
Keywords: termcap help
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Date: 17 May 89 17:47:29 GMT
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In article <1879@aucs.UUCP> ifocs9d@aucs.UUCP (Rick Giles) writes:
>I'm having some problems with vi in an xterm window. This is with a Sun 3/60,
>SunOS 4.0, and X Window System V11R3. vi symptoms include failure of
>insert line above and insert line below ('O' and 'o') commands to update
>the screen properly with newly inserted lines.
>Rick Giles

You might try removing the 'sc' and 'rc' entries from your VT100 termcap.
We had the same problem, and we determined that xterm was not processing
the 'rc' sequence properly.  The solution was to remove it; vi uses
alternate methods in the absence of sc/rc.

Don Pajerek