[1129] in Athena Bugs
(VS2) Version 6.0R: xterm termcap/auto margins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Wed Oct 5 13:35:16 1988
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 88 13:34:55 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (VS2) Version 6.0R
System name: lycus
What's wrong:
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The automatic margin token in the termcap entry for xterm makes more
misbehave when displaying lines that wrap.
This is a bug in more, which I remember seeing a report about to
comp.bugs.4bsd about 2 years ago.
Example:
create a file with an 90 character line, such as
012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
read it through more. You will notice a missing digit at the right margin.
What should have happened:
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More should be able to handle this properly.
But since we can't change more, and we can change termcap, I would
suggest reverting the termcap entry back.
This is know to affect 'vi', but I think that if you turn off auto
margins with the xterm menu, vi will work OK with the old termcap
(someone should try this).
More users use more than use vi, so I think we should make more work
correctly rather than worry about vi losing.
John
