Re: [Help-nano] Configuration issue with Nano

[Wayne Parker]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Chris Allegretta wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:05:49PM -0800, Wayne Parker wrote:
> > > I have seen this before on HP's ILO remote management console, and it is
> > > as you mention Wayne, the number of lines looks incorrect.  What would
> > > be helpful is if you tried other utilities like 'vi' and even 'less' and
> > > see whether these programs function as expected.   You will probably
> > > need some combination of setting TERM to "vt100", and using the resize,
> > > reset or stty sane commands.
> >
> > Brilliant!
> >
> > I tried "export TERM=vt100"
> >
> >     ... and now it works fine.
>
> Glad to hear it Wayne.  Incidentally, can you tell us what the $TERM
> value was set to before you manually set it to vt100, and what terminal
> program you are using to connect when you run nano?  (Apologies if you
> already mentioned this and I missed it).  I've seen this problem
> reported on some websites but we haven't been able to get enough info in
> order to reproduce it so we can fix it.  Thanks much!

The default was apparently TERM=xterm.  I was running an xterm session 
from an Alpha box, to which I was connected via SecureCRT from my Windows 
workstation.

        Secure CRT 3.2                  Tru64 Xterm
   PC ------------------> Alpha Tru64 --------------> Linux box ( & Nano)

Does that help?  I suspect the fact that TERM=xterm is the relevant 
factor.

Thanks again,

        -- Wayne

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