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wed is a terminal text editor with key bindings commonly used in Windows based editors
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wed on PuTTY prints an 'x' for every newline when editing a linux files (LF ending) #5

Closed nbenitez closed 7 years ago

nbenitez commented 7 years ago

Thank you very much for wed , I only considered the idea of working on my projects through PuTTY because of wed , no other terminal editor passes that mark for me.

Just reporting a small glitch in PuTTY, it shows an 'x' for every newline when editing files in my linux box.

Screenshot attached.

wed_bug

rgburke commented 7 years ago

Thanks for trying wed and for reporting this. I was able to reproduce the issue using PuTTY.

The x's should be vertical lines. However PuTTY in UTF-8 mode ignores the VT100 "Alternate character set" which is used for line drawing. This is resolved for me by adding the following lines to the ~/.bashrc on the remote machine being ssh'ed into:

export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

(You may want to use a differnet value for LANG)

With these environment variables set wed then displays correctly in PuTTY:

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Could you try adding these variables to your ~/.bashrc? It may be that you only need export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1 for wed to work, but I needed both.

nbenitez commented 7 years ago

I confirm this fixes the problem for me (I also needed both two variables), I used LANG=C.UTF-8 and btw the linux box is debian.

Thank you very much!