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From: jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general,comp.editors
Subject: vi editor problem on UNIX-pc
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 13:29:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 13:29:50 1987
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Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates - New Haven, CT
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Keywords: vi editor unix-pc
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I want to extend my thanks to everyone who responded to my question about
long lines (over 130 chars.) causing screen confusion on the UNIX-pc.

To summarize the responses I received, it appears that this is a problem
with vi itself and not specific to the UNIX-pc.  I received reports of this
same disturbing behavior from people on a variety of machines from PCs to
NCR to Altos to VAXes.  Some people suggested that if wrapmargin is on, this
will cause no end of trouble when joining long lines.  That was a good point
however, wrapmargin has been set to 0  in my case.  While no conclusive fixes
were provided, the consensus of opinion is that you _MAY_ be able to do
something about the problem if you fiddle with the "cm" or "xn" entries in
termcap.

As I previously mentioned, I became aware of the problem on this machine
when I upgraded from OS version 3.0 to 3.5.  I would be interested in
taking a look at the differences in the termcap entries for the S4 terminal
for these versions and I still plan to scan through my V-3.0 diskettes
one of these days to locate the old termcap file. To speed things along,
if someone reading this still happens to be running 3.0, I would appreciate
it if you could mail me a copy of the S4 entry for comparison.  Thanks.
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