VI editor in Gnome Terminal leaves text remnants on scroll

Donald Arseneau asnd at triumf.ca
Tue Apr 4 19:45:40 UTC 2006


Khoa Ton <khoa at puresynergy.com> writes:

> I agree that this sounds like it might be a Gnome Terminal bug.

It is long-standing that gnome terminal is not xterm, yet people
and distros keep setting the TERM variable to xterm.  Any apps 
(any that use ncurses) that make use of xterms irregularities in 
screen control will corrupt the screen.


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Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca




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