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From: rbj@DSYS.ICST.NBS.GOV (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: vi in xterm under uwm isn't working right
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Date: 17 May 89 20:24:49 GMT
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? From: Mike Whitman <pyrdc!mike@uunet.uu.net>

? I have just gotten a NCD16 X terminal and I am having the following problem.
? When I fire up vi in a xterm window, vi will not move the text down in a window
? when i 'O'pen a new line above or below the current point. I use the following
? in my .uwmrc to start the xterm I am running vi in.

As far as I know, it has nothing to do with uwm or your .uwmrc. I
believe you have to select the `curses bug fix' in the xterm menu.

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And now for something completely different. A UWM bug!

Run xinit.

In the sole xterm, type `uwm' with no trailing ampersand.

Create another xterm.

Go back to the original xterm. Type ^Z to suspend it.

The second xterm (and any other windows created with uwm) disappear.
There doesn't seem to be any way to recover them either. Backgrounding
the uwm seems to make it act normally with respect to future windows,
but the old ones are still in limbo. Foregrounding uwm probably produces
the same results. I haven't tried resuspending uwm to see whether it
orphans a new set of windows, or whether this behaviour obtains with
any other window manager. Have fun, gurus!

SunOS 3.5, patches 1-9, but patchlevel seems not to make any difference.

"But you shouldn't be doing that" :-)

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