Re: VI -- Terminal too wide -- Only on Solaris {RESOLVED}

From: Simran Hansrai (jagga@chamkila.org)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 17:11:57 EST


Hi Guys,

Thanks for everyones respone and almost everyone recommended that I use
vim instead of vi. So I have installed vim and just linked the vim
binaries to the old vi ones and this has fixed the issue for me.

Thanks,
-Simran H.

Simran Hansrai wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I seem to get the following errors when I try to vi a file in a window
> that is bigger than a certain amount:
>
> Terminal too wide
> :q
> 1 more file to edit:q
>
> This is only for my solaris boxes and becomes very annoying after a
> while :( I would like to fix vi instead of using vim, so I was
> wondering if there is a quick fix for this. I tried searching online
> but was not able to find any fixes for this issue and was wondering if
> you guys would know :)
>
> bash-2.05# echo $TERM
> vt100
> bash-2.05# uname -a
> SunOS shinda 5.9 Generic_112233-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
> -Simran H.
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