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


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