[28] in Athena Bugs
Re: vi on vt100s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Fri Mar 11 12:23:56 1988
To: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 11 Mar 88 10:59:20 -0500.
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 88 12:22:45 EST
From: Win Treese <treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> I dial in through Jason rather frequently. My terminal behaves like a
> VT100. For some reason, "vi" starts all screens at approximately line
> 12 or so (half way). By using the "up" arrow, I can manage to make
> use of the top half of my screen, but otherwise this is wasted realestate.
> This is annoying. The "forward screen" and "backward screen" commands
> behave in the same way.
> --KUBI--
> p.s. Please spare me the "use emacs" flames... vi is great as a quick, low-
> overhead editor.
That's a feature that vi uses for low-speed lines. That way, it doesn't have
to paint as many lines.
- Win
