[17917] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.3: vi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Jun 15 03:32:51 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 15 Jun 2000 03:32:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 01:12:59 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hg0qf2yci.fsf@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Well, what is TERM set to when you see this problem? Are there any
> particular operations you have to do in vi before exiting to get the
> faulty exit behavior?
For what it's worth, I get this behavior at home on my Debian PC. I
use gnome-term and have TERM set to xterm-debian which is essentially
the same as xterm.
I suspect that it's an unfortunate interaction between vi and the
xterm TERM type.
