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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:58:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: proper terminal type for tcsh under Cygwin?
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In-Reply-To: <200003212332.SAA03676@hrothgar.gw.com>; from christos@zoulas.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:32:35PM -0500

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:32:35PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>On Mar 21,  1:52pm, kelem AT adaptivesilicon DOT com (Steve Kelem) wrote:
>>set term=cygwin yields no insert mode when you move the cursor into the
>>middle of a word.  The new characters overwrite the old characters, but
>>a C-r shows that the new characters really were inserted.
>
>I know this is suboptimal, but you can use telltc to figure out what
>the bad entries, and settc to fix them.  The editor in tcsh will work
>properly with most termcap entries empty, but it will be less
>efficient.
>
>When you come up with a working version you can store it in a file or
>put it in your TERMCAP environment variable.

FWIW, I don't see this problem at all.  Inserting a character works
correctly for me.  You should not have to set the terminal type.  It
should be automatic.

cgf

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