On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:23:52AM -0400, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: >Putty seems to be a >repeat suggestion but it's not for my platforms.
PuTTY interprets ESC [?7l in a weirdly wrong way -- instead of disabling autowrap (which is already a half-documented feature that's implemented differently on the VT100, VT101, and VT102, likely by accident), it makes autowrap work in a different, incorrect way. Editors trip over that since they can't be afraid to use column 80. John Wilson D Bit
