9.04 VI slow response in gnome-terminal

[David Fox]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Robert Gibbs <gibbsrc at gmail.com> wrote:

> system and VI runs just fine inside an xterm.  I would switch to xterm, but
> the font isn't as nice.

Well, this doesn't really solve the problem, since the problem is
really why gnome-terminal is sluggish on your system, but you can
invoke xterm with a -font parameter and execute vi that way:

$ xterm -font 9x15 -e vi




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