Cursor is frozen in Vim and Emacs

[Larry Hall]

stuart gear wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 4, 2003 Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>So, I use "ansi" as an example of an incorrect TERM setting and you set
>>the TERM to ansi.
> 
> 
> I tried a couple of term settings and nothing changed. I tried ansi and
> suddenly I am able to type and move around, so I left it there.
> 
> 
>>Igor's reply to this message says it all, but I was trying to suggest that
>>you should not be setting the TERM value to anything.  You should let
> 
> cygwin
> 
>>(or rxvt or xterm) do that for you.
> 
> 
> Sorry about that. I'm going to treat my change to vimrc as a quick and dirty
> temporary fix, so I can start to learn about vim and how to use it. I need
> to go away and do ALOT more reading on cygwin and perhaps unix/linux, before
> I can act upon Igor's advice, although I do appreciate the time you and him
> have taken to respond.


Sounds fine.  If you have any other problems with your terminal/console,
review the advice from Chris and Igor.


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