Hi all!
I just use The traditional VI (http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/) ex-050325.tar.bz2 as my editor.
All things are going fine until yesterday.
I found that
'vi myfile.txt'
in command line (bash shell) can not display the first line of myfile.txt properly.

The problem is that the first 20 characters (or so) of the first line do not show on my screen. So I can not edit them. All the other lines are fine. While
'cat myfile.txt'
shows the content perfectly.

Everything is fine if I issue
'vi myfile.txt'
in an x-term (i.e. vi works pretty well within X Window)


Any ideas to fix this problem? Thanks for your time!!

Is there any difference in your TERM variable between xterm and a virtual terminal? How many screen lines are being displayed? What is the value of LINES?

Just throwing this out there, but does it appear that the file starts on line 2? I have in the past started vi and found myself on the continued part of the first line. Since up/k moves up to the actual line (as opposed to gk), it can appear like you can't reach it.

Also, is it a matter of placement? If you :read the file into a later part of itself, does it still have the same issue? Are they all just standard characters [a-zA-Z0-9] ?

I'm just taking a shot in the dark. I've never had that happen to me.

You could try the 'od' cmd eg http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.co...acters-in.html.
Similarly, try 'hexdump' on the file in qn.

Thank you for your replying.
To penguiniator:
1. in X Window:
----------------------
echo $TERM
xterm
echo $LINES
13
------------------------
2. in virtual terminal:
-------------------------
echo $TERM
linux
echo $LINES
25
--------------------------
3. The displayed screen lines is actually 25 in the terminal.

To kainosnous:
There are no special character in the file. All of them are in [a-zA-Z0-9].
And it seems that, in the terminal+vi, the cursor just can not be seen in the first line.
I 'set number' in ~/.exrc, and in the terminal+vi, the screen is like this:
-------------------------------------------

2 this is the second line
3 this is the third line
...
...
...
--------------------------------
Notice that the first line is of no number and when I '1 G',
the cursor is missing. Then 'a' to append 40 (say) letters to the first line, but only
the last 5 (say) letters of them are displayed in the first screen line like this:
-------------------------------------------
schri
2 this is the second line
3 this is the third line
...
...
...
--------------------------------

Help!!!

Is syntax highlighting turned on? There may be something strange in there like a black foreground text or folding. What does vi think the filetype is? (:se filetype)