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Hi Igor

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Luke Vanderfluit wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>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.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Just to clarify: if you use the default cmd.exe "console" window
>>>(i.e., the default Cygwin shortcut), then your TERM is "cygwin".  If
>>>you use rxvt or xterm, you'd use TERM="xterm", of course...
>>>HTH,
>>>      
>>>
>>Thanks for your reply.
>>I'm using rxvt. I use the following in cygwin.bat:
>>
>>bash --login -i -c 'rxvt -geometry 80x29 -sb -sl 10000 -bg Black -fg green -bd LightSeaGreen -fn Courier -font 7x15'
>>
>>I've tried setting
>>term=builtin_xterm -> bad characters when using cursor, no
>>backspace=delete to previous line as in vim set backspace=2, no info
>>telling me which mode I'm in.
>>term=ansi, backspace=2 -> no mode info, backspace deletes but screen
>>doesn't show deletions until next insert (annoying, not workable)
>>
>>If there are any cygwin users on XP who have a nicely working vi, please
>>let me know what your settings are.
>>    
>>
>
>I use vi under XP all the time.  Here are my settings:
>
>:set
>--- Options ---
>  background=dark     isprint=@,129-255   scroll=11         term=cygwin
>nocompatible          laststatus=2        shell=/bin/sh     visualbell
>  incsearch           ruler               shiftwidth=2      nowrapscan
>  formatoptions=tcroq
>  shortmess=filnxtToOI
>
>If you wish, I could also email you the output of ':set all' off-list...
>HTH,
>  
>

No need.
The 'set nocompatible' did it.
I used some of the others including laststatus as well.

Thanks muchly.


-- 
Luke


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