vi editor problem 1

[TheDash]

Hi,

Can anybody help me with vi editor? Whenever I press <Esc>:
the cursor goes half screen and that's where things go wrong. I already exported my term as vt100.

Thanks in advance

 

[CaKiwi]

It seems like there is something wrong with your terminal definition and vi thinks that the window has less lines in it than it actually has. If you enter control-l (that's an ell), does vi display data only in half the screen? Also, what OS, version of vi, terminal/graphics window are you running with?

CaKiwi

 

[TheDash]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Initially, a file is displayed on entire screen. But, "filename" 51 lines, 1678 characters appears at the half. If I press a ctl-l at this point the above line disappears and the actual file line appears. Now, If I press <Esc>:, the cursor comes back to the middle of the screen. Also, I won't scroll till the end of file. The last line keeps overwritten. I am using HP-UX 11.00 and F-Secure SSH Client. Sorry, I don't know vi version.

Thanks again.

 

[vgersh99]

make sure your client 'emulation' is setup correctly - check the configuration settings.

also if you 'shrunk/expanded' the window - it might have some effect. Don't know about HP-UX, but for Solaris, doing /usr/openwin/bin/resize will do the trick.

vlad
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[Ygor]

Ensure that environment variable $LINES is set (and matches the number of lines in the window).

 

[TheDash]

vgersh,

Thanks. In HP-UX, it is /usr/bin/X11/resize