X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: vim under cygwin In-Reply-To: From Igor Pechtchanski at "Dec 19, 2005 07:54:00 pm" From: Jim Easton To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:00:02 -0700 (MST) CC: Jim Easton , lvanderf@internode.com.au Message-Id: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/