From: Leigh W. <le...@pd...> - 2006-04-14 20:51:10
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Dave, My TERM is set correctly, and ^L does cause it to refresh to a correct state. I didn't ever have to do this with the 2.6.11 I had, though. We have support people who are going to be logging into gumstix in the field to tweak things using vi, so I guess I'll just have to let them know. Thanks! Leigh W. Wells -----Original Message----- From: gum...@li... [mailto:gum...@li...] On Behalf Of Dave Hylands Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:12 PM To: gum...@li... Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] vi on 2.6.15 Hi Leigh, > I'm using 2.6.15 r900, and vi seems to be acting up (i.e., the chars I type don't appear correctly, weird things happening when I try to delete a line, etc). It worked fine on my previous 2.6.11 setup. Is this just me, or has anyone else experienced this? I've noriced that the vi is kind of deficient in all versions. When I use it I'm always logged in over my serial port. getty sets the TERM variable to be vt100. So I'd check that. The other tip I've discovered is that if I think I've typed the right thing and it looks wonly on the display, then I do ESC Control-L This causes vi to redraw the screen. In most cases it fixes up the display to show what I thought it should look like. -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd_____________________________________ __________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |