jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (C. Jeffery Small) (10/14/88)
Has anyone been able to successfully set up for wide-screen vi editing
session on the console? I have been trying to use the version 3.51 supplied
"132-Character" font in /usr/lib/wfont/PLAIN.R.E.11.A (which BTW is only
120 characters wide on the console!) by doing the following:
1: Add termcap and terminfo entries called s4-120 which duplicate the
s4 entry with #co120 and #li26. (Also tried li24 and li25).
2: TERM=s4-120 ; export TERM
3: setf /usr/lib/wfont/PLAIN.R.E.11.A 0 (load font into slot 0)
4: /usr/bin/vi [filename]
So far, so good. The editor fires up with the new font and handles the
120 column width and sets a 25 line window. However, there are problems:
A: The screen update gets confused and doesn't properly indicate which
line you are actually on (in the edit buffer). As you would expect,
a ^L will bring things back in line.
B: When you type certain editing commands (eg. A) I get a "H5", "E3",
etc appearing on the screen. Sometimes these disappear with a refresh
while other times they are actually inserted into the text at the
current cursor position. In either case, the proper editor effect is
not performed. As far as I can tell, there are no termcap/terminfo
values with a these strings embedded in them and they are not the
result of key mapping from function keys.
C: There are a few other minor problems with screen refresh - like
the info/status line getting "picked up" and scrolled up the screen
with your text.
Any clues as to what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
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19112 152nd Ave NE - Woodinville, WA 98072 uunet!nwnexusjr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (10/21/88)
In article <135@cjsa.WA.COM> jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (C. Jeffery Small) writes: >Has anyone been able to successfully set up for wide-screen vi editing >session on the console? >The editor fires up with the new font and handles the >120 column width and sets a 25 line window. However, there are problems [details omitted] I don't know if this is your problem or not, but I found out that to get an odd-sized font to work right in vi the window has to be sized very carefully. Sizing with the mouse using a skinny font can result in a window slightly bigger than termcap thinks your line is long -- & this causes it to get its leedul self most yuckily confused! Try using windy to size your window to the exact number of pixels needed to get the number of columns you've told termcap you've got. See if this helps. -- Jim Rosenberg CIS: 71515,124 decvax!idis! \ WELL: jer allegra! ---- pitt!amanue!jr BIX: jrosenberg uunet!cmcl2!cadre! /