Re: [Help-nano] Configuration issue with Nano

[Wayne Parker]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Chris Allegretta wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:15:15PM -0500, David Lawrence Ramsey wrote:
> > Hmmm.  Is everything displayed properly after pressing Ctrl-L to refresh
> > the screen?
> >
> > > Does this sound like a common misconfiguration that you recognize?
> >
> > Unfortunately, no.
> >
> > > It does appear to me as though somehow the program believes it has
> > > either fewer or more lines and/or character positions to work with
> > > than it actually has, but I don't know for sure.
>
> I have seen this before on HP's ILO remote management console, and it is
> as you mention Wayne, the number of lines looks incorrect.  What would
> be helpful is if you tried other utilities like 'vi' and even 'less' and
> see whether these programs function as expected.   You will probably
> need some combination of setting TERM to "vt100", and using the resize,
> reset or stty sane commands.

Brilliant!

I tried "export TERM=vt100"

    ... and now it works fine.

Thanks, Chris, and thank you too, David.  I'll look forward to starting to 
play with it, and discovering its additional features (beyond Pico).

        -- Wayne

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