Just wanted to pass this along, I got this response from a
guy on the list. Though I must say, I've also had this
problem with Konsole under KDE. --KenG
I reported this bug some time ago. Just recently, I got a
reply on the
issue:
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:51:43 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Brown
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: It's actually a vim startup problem
Hi Martin and the gnome-terminal bug team!
Here's a follow-up to the "exit vi problem" (gnome bug
4052).
When the text editor vim starts up it issues some terminal
escape codes,
beginning with the following sequence:
ESC [ > c
Gnome-terminal sets the TERM variable to xterm, so the same
codes get sent under both xterm and gnome-terminal.
Xterm does not print anything from this sequence, while
gnome-terminal prints a "c". Ensuing terminal codes clear
the screen and set up the vi start page. The "c" is
revealed when vim quits and the original (command-line)
screen is restored (my version of xterm, interestingly,
does not properly restore the screen--previous lines are
blanked out;
gnome-terminal does restore the screen properly, "c" and
all).
I could not find any reference to what the escape code ESC
[ > c could be, so perhaps this is a bug in vim. The
behavior is the same when using TERM=xterm and
TERM=builtin_xterm, so I don't think this is a termcap bug.
I have only observed this behavior on Redhat Linux version
6 (I have not looked for it elsewhere, though), both i686
and PPC versions.
One workaround is to set the TERM environment variable to
vt102, which also removes the screen-restore function.
Another solution to the "c" problem is to use the Berkeley
"new" vi (nvi).
Note:
You can trap the escape codes by tying
$ vim > out
and then quitting by typing
ZZ
after getting the "Output is not to a terminal" warning.
You can then examine the file "out" with your text editor.
--Alex Eulenberg
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