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/