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Subject: Re: VT100 emulation in vi
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Date: 22 Dec 89 16:20:37 GMT
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In a recent article folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
  | I have two fixes that always seem to get RR and WK working with vi:

  | 1. Make sure your tabs are set correctly.  The tab stops should be
  | 9, 17, 25, ....  NOT 8, 16, 24,....  (This is the preferred solution.)

  | 2. In the shell, do "stty -tabs" to disable tabs.  (Less preferred,
  | since it slows things down, and doesn't work on non-UNIX machines.)

  | As for pasting into vi, be careful if you have auto-indent set.  If
  | you cut a bunch of stuff with leading whitespace, each line will
  | autoindent to the whitespace of the previous line, then add its own
  | whitespace.  This results in a diagonal flow across the screen. --

Thanks for the suggestions, but no-go.  I never use tabs in vi and rarely
use leading spaces when pasting text into vi.

Generally WK starts to "lose it" after entering and exiting insert mode..
but sometimes it will start to corrupt the screen just by scrolling around
in the document.

  | Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)

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Stuart Burden
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