Bug#363576: vim uses incorrect escape sequence "device-control-string"?

Erich Schubert erich at debian.org
Wed Apr 19 20:32:57 UTC 2006


Package: vim
Version: 1:6.4-007+1
Severity: normal

whenever I start "vim" in gnome-terminal, I get the error message
** (gnome-terminal:3680): WARNING **: No handler for control sequence
`device-control-string' defined.
a couple of times.

According to this old bug report
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=176991
this is not an error of gnome-terminal, but "You are using wrong escape
strings sequence. Please check your configuration."
If you disagree with that, feel free to reassign this bug to
gnome-terminal... I don't exactly know what is causing this warning, so
I can't decide whether it's vim or gnome-terminal... but I know it's
this combination giving me the error message.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.6
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-7     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpmg1                     1.19.6-22   General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-1.1     Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  vim-common                   1:6.4-007+1 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-runtime                  1:6.4-007+1 Vi IMproved - Runtime files

vim recommends no packages.

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