Bug 55146

Summary:	xterm -e breaks terminfo?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <xhejtman>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-10-26 10:53:02 UTC

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Description of problem:
xterm -e vim -- vim thinks erase is ^h instead ^? Why? If I run xterm and
than vim, all is ok. (I have vim6.0 from rawhide, xterm is from normal 7.2)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vim-enhanced-6.0-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. xterm -e vim
2. try to something write
3. try to erase it with basck space
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2001-11-06 17:19:34 UTC

seems to be a vim issue

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2001-11-06 17:21:06 UTC

no, seems to be an X issue.  konsole and gnome-terminal do not behave this way.

I would possibly consider this issue possibly unsupported, as both konsole and 
gnome-terminal are the supported terminal emulators.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-06 21:41:04 UTC

Feedback from upstream:

This is not a bug; it is OS dependent behavior. Stick something like this
in your .Xresources:
 
    xterm*ttyModes: erase ^?

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-07 18:56:00 UTC

Further debugging points towards a bug in xterm.  Upstream XFree86
maintainers have been informed of this problem so that someone
with expertise with xterm internals can hopefully find a solution.