There seems to be something wrong with rxvt. I am not sure exactly but about 2 weeks ago I did an upgrade and then tried to use vim and it would not let me get into edit mode. It is like the term emulation is messed up. I could not use the arrow keys hjkl or anything to move the cursor. The only thing I can do is :QWER and eventually is does some crazy thing and gets to a point where I can quit my vim.
At first I thought it was a problem with vim but when I use a different TERM (console, xterm, wterm) it works fine. It is probably a combination of the two. If anyone has any light to shine on this I would really appreciate it. Wichert Already told me to try vim -u NONE -U NONE and that did not work. I have also tried deleting my .vimrc. Come to think of it, it has to be a vim problem (possibly upstream). Because if I use (my computer here that has a broken install) and connected to my home machine before I upgraded vim worked. But when I upgraded my home machine and connected there and to use vim it is now broken. Which leads me to believe it is not an isolated incident (also I am running wmaker). -Ryan