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

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Thu Apr 20 18:16:31 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:30:20AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:

> What I can't tell is whether vim should be doing this, and libvte4
> shouldn't complain about not understanding it but setting TERM=xterm, or
> if xterm actually understands this.
> Maybe vim should only do this for certain terminals, depending on the
> value of $TERM, I know much too little about termcap to answer this.

well, anytime you set TERM to "xterm" for gnome-terminal, you run the
risk of running into one of its bugs.  vim does use some xterm-specific
features.

Try TERM=gnome

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Thomas E. Dickey
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