Re: [RP] vi problem when running ratpoison in Solaris

[Martin Samuelsson]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:04:44PM -0800, Bin Lei wrote:
> I'm running ratpoison 1.1.1 on Solaris 9 and I can't run vi from rp. I get 
> an error message "terminal too wide". I understood this might be the bug in 
> Sun's vi, I heard it had a maximum of 163 characters. The reason I still 
> post the message here is I hope someone might had the problem before and had 
> a fix for it. Thanks for your help.

I usually execute "xterm -fn 7x13" when in contact with solaris boxes.
That's an argument to the xterm in debian, (i use that locally and
solaris only remote) it changes the font size to one gives less than 163
columns on my 1024x768 screen.

Another work around is to write "stty cols 163" before starting vi.
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/Martin