This is not the problem. When I start vi in a xterm (or any terminal) vi use all the size but if I resize the xterm (dynamic or tiled), vi maintains the old size and the screen become a mess when I edit text.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Christoph Schied <christoph.sch...@uni-ulm.de> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 07:49:02PM +0100, Rob wrote: >> Which version do you mean by original vi? >> $ pacman -Qi vi >> [...] >> That works fine with my xterm, maybe you've got some strange Xdefaults? > > archlinux applies a patch to vi to increase the maximum screen size: > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/vi/trunk/increase-tube.patch > >
