[Info-vax] EDIT wierdness with OpenVMS 9.2 on x86

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Apr 18 11:44:37 EDT 2023


On 4/18/2023 11:33 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-18 at 16:14 +0100, Tom Wade wrote:
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> A wild guess is that your terminal emulator is sending an extra
>> linefeed character when you start the editor.  In EVE, a CTRL/J (LF)
>> deletes the current word.
> 
> That's a pretty good guess, I'll check my terminal emulation settings.
> I've been using device_type=vt132 with /page=43 and /width=143 as
> that's my favourite gnome terminal settings.

I will strongly recommend VT200/300/400/500 over
VT100 and derivatives for VMS.

Arne




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