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- From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: getting "bogus do_no_page"; strange vi behavior
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.221135.780@novell.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 22:11:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.145123.20915@novell.com> <1992Sep2.051030.24587@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: Novell, Inc. --Austin
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- In article <1992Sep2.051030.24587@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug31.145123.20915@novell.com> bboerner@novdpd.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
- >>
- >>Also, after upgrading to 0.97, I noticed that vi has been acting
- >>funny. While inserting into a line, it starts adding spaces. Using ^L
- >>will redraw the screen and show that the spaces really don't exist.
- >>
- >
- >My copy of elvis has been doing this since I started using it with Linux
- >0.96. I thought it was a sloppy compile but I see I'm not the only one.
- >
- >I have a more serious problem. I keep losing my scrolling on the 25th
- >line! This would happen to me occassionally with earlier versions of
- >Linux, but I'm getting it much more frequently now with 0.97 patch2.
- >I'm not sure when it started, but it is getting quite annoying now.
- >Does anyone know if there is a command to reset a VC after it stops
- >scrolling on the 25th line?
-
- This was happening to me after using Kermit-5A to login to another
- UNI*X host - after coming back, the virtual terminal was in this stat -
- setterm -reset/initialize didn't work. I got the termcap from 0.96 and
- this fixed my "extra" spaces problem - I haven't had a chance to see if
- it would fix this other.
-
- Brendan
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