Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!bru-cc!andrew
From: andrew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: vi in xterm under uwm isn't working right
Message-ID: <718@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 16 May 89 11:34:30 GMT
References: <1274@pyrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrew@me.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay)
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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In article <1274@pyrdc.UUCP> mike@pyrdc.UUCP (Mike Whitman) writes:
>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.

Same here, though I am using a Sun-3 as the server. The problem seems to be
related to the vt100 emulation. If you use the "xterm" termcap entry, all is
fine. If you try to pretend that xterm is a vt100, insert-line operations
don't work.

Andrew


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