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Subject:	Re: vim under cygwin
In-Reply-To:	From Igor Pechtchanski at "Dec 19, 2005 07:54:00 pm"
From:	Jim Easton <jim AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca>
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Date:	Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:00:02 -0700 (MST)
CC:	Jim Easton <jim AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca>, lvanderf AT internode DOT com DOT au
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Luke Vanderfluit wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm a vi user :-)
>
> I recently started using cygwin, so forgive me if this is an obvious one.
> I want to use vi under cygwin but I'm having trouble with terminal settings.
>
> apparently these are the possible term settings.
>
> builtin_ansi
> builtin_xterm
> builtin_iris-ansi
> builtin_dumb
>
> However, none of these work right.
> Can someone advise me on the term settings for windows XP/cygwin or
> point me to an appropriate resource.

Hi,

For what it's worth I set the term type to vt100 and have had
no problems with vi/vim.

In my .Xresources file I have the line,
XTerm*TermName:		vt100

	Jim


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