xterm or rxvt -why the keys difference?

2001-09-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have various alt- keys mapped in vim to save, delete lines etc. These work in the console and they work in rxvt but they don't work in xterm. In xterm, alt-s and s, for example, give the same symbol. Using the GUI version of vim, however, works without problems in xterm. I've read all the docsc

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

xterm or rxvt

2001-08-03 Thread harsha
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 opinion of long time u

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

(xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-11 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
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 is really great it leaves me with a pr

netscape 4.7.1 segfaults but not in xterm or rxvt

2000-02-07 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
greetings, i finally upgraded to kernel 2.2 with gnome/enlightenment and i'm having a strange problem with netscape 4.7.1. when i try to invoke it from the enlightenment menu or gnome terminal or eterm it crashes with segmentation fault but if i invoke it from xterm or rxvt if comes up just