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Re: vim and xterm/rxvt
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- Subject: Re: vim and xterm/rxvt
- From: "ad675@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca" <ad675@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>
- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:36:12 -0600 (CST)
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Ok, I solved the problem. Here is a hint for those who encountered
terminal input problems in X environment and/or process spawn problems.
*** Always copy BASH.EXE to your /bin/sh.exe but NOT SH.EXE. ***
Yin
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, ad675@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just compiled and installed X11R6.4 and rxvt for cygwin32 B20.1 on
> Win98. When I tried to run vi in a rxvt session, I got the following
> error after I typed the very first key:
> Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
> Vim: Finished.
>
> If I run vi in xterm, it does not response to any keystroke. I must
> kill the process to get out.
>
> Whether putting "tty" in CYGWIN and/or CYGWIN32 makes little difference.
> What is could be wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yin Zhou
>
> P.S. I searched the archive of this newsgroup, there is one related post,
> about use more/less in rxvt/xterm, but was no definite answer.
>
>
>
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