Thanks Chris: you nailed it. TERM was nutc, whatever that's supposed to be, changed it to cygwin and all's well with the world!:-)
Thanks, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vim problem with my install, y? On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:40:57PM -0500, Lane, Frank L wrote: >Just installed cygwin, and tried to use vi. For some reason, which I >hope someone on the list will make abundantly clear to me, all the >keyboard input was focused into the leftmost, topmost character of my >edit screen. Sounds like you have the TERM environment variable set incorrectly. If not, then: http://cygwin.com/problems.html . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/