rabe@thor.stolaf.edu (brett m rabe) (09/27/89)
Howdy out there. I don't know what newsgroup this is appropriate for. Is there a comp.terminal newsgroup that I don't know about|? I'm using a wyse85 terminal with a 1200 baud modem on a Vax 11/780 running 4.3BSD Unix. I'm having some problems with the termcap entry, I think, and I'm wondering if anybody out there has a good termcap entry that they would mail me. Unfortunately, I don't even have a manual for the terminal; I don't know if a manual would even help. The problem is that when I am using vi, in the edit mode, if I move the cursor down or up a line (from, say, halfway across the screen -- actually anywhere except the first column) the rest of the line in front of the cursor will be erased. The other thing that might happen is that when I move the cursor up or down, it will _appear_ to be at the beginning of the line (instead of out where it should be), but if I redraw the screen it is in the correct place. Everything works fine if I redraw the screen every time I move the cursor, but needless to say, that gets frustrating. Also, if I move over words using "w" uit will tend to erase about half of the words. I'm not knowledgeable enough to tweak the termcap entry I have really well and kjnow what I'm doing, so I would appreciate *any* help that people can give. Thanks, Brett p.s. Yes, I read the manula entry for termcap :)