Re: xterm or rxvt

2001-08-03 Thread smokez
harsha wrote: hi, I was install Xwindow on my system and setting it up as per the instructions in Xwindow-USER HOWTO. The documents suggests usage of rxvt in case of a low memory card. I have good card with 32MB ram. It also says that xterm is quite bloated. I would like the opin

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"t.bedlam" wrote: > Is this a KDE problem? Does KDE use termcap and not terminfo? Termcap very > likely does not support color; a termcap.gz is in /usr/share/doc, but Debian > doesn't use it; it's just there for reference. My xterm/rxvt work great, > 2.1 and 2.2. I'm composing this mail in vim 5.

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:42:48AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > So my idea would be changing the xterm entry in the termcap file, > because my xterm does support colors. > > And now, to end this already-too-long e-mail: Is this a good idea? And, > if so, how can it be done? Or, do I have oth

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread t.bedlam
While answering this message, I discovered that XTerm (which I hardly use) did not understand the Home and End keys, and backspaced for both Backspace and Delete! Turns out I had not 'potatoed' xterm and rxvt... :) 'Course, now XTerm is white BG and light grey text. Hmm. Ahh. /etc/X11/Xresources

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Bateman
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been reading into the VIM online help a lot lately and I am truly > impressed what this editor can do for me. And to include the obligatory > flame bait: I'll never touch Emacs again -- which is, of course, > nonsense. > > Anyway, while the online help