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, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/