Elvis problems in X (was: Re: No Termcap)
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:22:55 +0200 (MET DST) , Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
>
> Debian uses ncurses instead of termcap, which is considered "obsolete".
> Just replacing -ltermcap by -lncurses will do the trick.
I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package
of elvis still needs termcap.
If I start elvis on a console (/dev/tty[1-9]), everything is normal.
Problems arise only in X.
If I run elvis in an xterm, nothing is wrong. But if I use rxvt instead
of xterm, I get a blank 'screen' (within the rxvt) and I know ':q' works,
so vi is started and it works. Only the output is wrong.
If I run elvis as editor from knews, using the resource:
Knews.editCommand: elvis -G x11 +%i %s
I get a window with the title 'stderr', a message 'termcap needs up' and a
button 'ok'. Knews then says the editor exited abnormally.
Does anybody have the same experience or am I the only one with this
problem? BTW, the only reason I have for running rxvt is the color support
that is default. Does anyone know an easy way to get color support in the
xterm that comes with the Debian installation of X?
Remco
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