[6866] in SIPB bug reports
Re: vim
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura G Dean)
Fri Jun 19 22:51:49 1998
To: yak@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 04:52:57 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:51:41 EDT
From: Laura G Dean <lgdean@MIT.EDU>
> > This happens when I try vim on this machine (eng-read-room, a sparc
> > classic) and on xcb.
> >
> > "/etc/termcap", line 323: terminal 'M1', slashes aren't allowed in
> > names or aliases
> >
> > vim4, on the other hand, seems to work fine.
>
> I would guess this is a result of an incorrectly set $TERM. The
> termcap on xcb (and I don't know what else) seems to be messed up for
> that particular entry. It definitely works fine for xterm, and most
> likely also works on most other common terminals.
Same thing happens on mkc, and when I echo $TERM it says xterm.
(And the same thing happened for tivol on portnoy, and someone else
here earlier, I think, so I'm not doing anything weird on login, I
think. On the other hand, if it works for you... <shrug>)
It works for Omri on xcb now, but his TERM is vt100.
Laura
