Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:23:03 +0100 From: Nick Drage To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows 2000: "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional" and pro blems with vi Message-ID: <20010831152303.J22850@metastasis.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: Nick Drage References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from schmiede@crd.ge.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM -0400 X-Hypocrisy: http://chilled.cream.org/graphics/charlotte.jpg On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM -0400, Schmiederer, John (CRD) wrote: > As of a couple days ago, my cygwin terminal has been acting up. > Whenever I use the 'less' command I get the warning that my terminal is > not fully functional. When I use vi, the cursor never moves from the top > left corner. I can type the command to go to line five and then insert or > delete characters, but I can't see my self doing it. Also, the colors for > vi variables and comments and everything else changed. What do you get from the output of echo $TERM ? If it doesn't come back with cygwin try export TERM=cygwin and then see how you get on. -- canonicalization homeopath -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/