On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 07:49:02PM +0100, Rob wrote: > Which version do you mean by original vi? > $ pacman -Qi vi > [...] > That works fine with my xterm, maybe you've got some strange Xdefaults?
archlinux applies a patch to vi to increase the maximum screen size: http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/vi/trunk/increase-tube.patch
