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

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Thu Apr 20 00:27:26 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:47:58PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:32:57PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Which vim executable are you _actually_ using?

I talked to Erich about this on IRC.  He's using vim.gnome but was also
able to reproduce it with vim.basic.  The culprit seems to be something
that Vim emits when setting 'nocompatible'.  A minimal reproduction can
be done by starting Vim as "vim -u NONE --noplugin -N".  Leaving off the
'-N' will prevent the warning from occurring.

I'm still not sure if this is something that needs to be fixed in Vim or
if it's a problem with gnome-terminal, but I figured we could ping
vim-dev to see what they feel about it.

James
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