mike@pyrdc.UUCP (Mike Whitman) (05/13/89)
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.
menu = "Applications" {
"xterm" : !"xterm -ls +si -sb -sl 512 -vb -fn 9x15 &"
"xman" : !"xman &"
"emacs" : !"emacs &"
"vn" : !"xterm -vb -fn 9x15 -e vn &"
"elm" : !"xterm -vb -fn 9x15 -e elm &"
"top" : !"xterm -vb -fn 9x15 -e top &"
}
menu = "Games" {
"xwanderer" : !"xwanderer &"
"xphoon" : !"xphoon -t60 &"
}
Any ideas? I am stumpped. I have tried all options in the xterm menus to no
avail. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks,
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"John Wayne never wore lycra!" -- Ron Kauk at Snowbird Climbing Competitiondave@celerity.uucp (Dave Smith) (05/16/89)
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. You probably don't have the "xterm" termcap entry defined in /etc/termcap on the host system. This resides in clients/xterm/termcap. If xterm can't find the xterm entry when it starts, it claims to be a vt100 although it doesn't quite do a vt100; the line insert sequence is different and I'm not sure how much else is, but it definitely doesn't work right. David L. Smith FPS Computing, San Diego ucsd!celerity!dave "Repent, Harlequin!," said the TickTock Man
andrew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) (05/16/89)
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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
rbj@DSYS.ICST.NBS.GOV (Root Boy Jim) (05/18/89)
? 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. ? -m------- Mike Whitman Phone : (703)848-2050 ? ---mmm----- Pyramid Technology Fax : (703)848-4995 ? -----mmmmm--- 1921 Gallows Rd, #250 ARPA : mike@gmu90x.gmu.edu ? -------mmmmmmm- Vienna, VA 22182 UUCP : ...uunet!pyrdc!mike 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" :-) Root Boy Jim is what I am Are you what you are or what?