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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pcvt and vi conflict? Date: 19 Aug 1994 14:36:44 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 1.1.5 Usenet Site Lines: 19 Message-ID: <33291a$6nk@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <32vtnd$3qc@jpunix.com> <jbrown.71.000DE8C7@umi.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <jbrown.71.000DE8C7@umi.com>, Jim Brown <jbrown@umi.com> wrote: > Check, or better yet explicitly set the LINES environment variable to > something near a full screen width. For Bourne shell try: > > ########## > LINES=24; export LINES > vi foo.bar > ########## Even better as the LINES/COLUMNS variables are old-fashioned : use `eval resize`. resize is part of the X11 distribution. -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP / 4.4BSD FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) RELEASE#0 i386