[plug] Terminal Emulation

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day Brad,

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:55:20PM +0800, Bradley Browne wrote:
> Hmmm... I have solved the problem I was having.
> Thanks to all of you who suggested various other telnet packages,
> though that turned out to not be the problem.
> 
> Turns out that the terminal information on the Linux box has been
> changed and so it will not let me use arrow keys to navigate vi. 
> Once I realised this I was okay to move around and edit the files
> I needed to.  However I am still not sure why when I use vi it
> does not completely refresh the screen.  Is this something I can
> set up in terminfo or termcap ?  Or somewhere else ?

It may have something to do with the number of lines (linux/vim) expects
your terminal to display.

	check the env LINES "echo $LINES"
	also check the stty settings "stty -a" - look for "rows"
	check what your terminal is set to use. Make sure they match.
	

Later,

Jason Nicholls
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