Re: vi in ssh window
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:51:43PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 dochawk@psu.edu wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > When I ssh in to my debian potato system and try to do something like vi,
> > > or dselect, the screen messes up. For example, the vi status line occurs
> > > at the top of the screen, and I can't see the line the cursor is currently
> > > on. In dselect the same type things happen, stuff gets printed on lines
> > > previous or after where it should be. It makes it really hard to use
> > > remotely. Is this something wrong with my term settings? Any ideas?
> >
> > Is your terminal variable set correctly? See what your client
> > is emulating, and set the environment variable TERM to this type.
> >
> > hawk
> >
>
> As far as I know I'm using an xterm, and the TERM is set to xterm.
>
To find out -
$ echo $TERM
kent
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