Bug 10389 – Very obscure screen+vim combo bug

Bug 10389 - Very obscure screen+vim combo bug

Summary:	Very obscure screen+vim combo bug

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	vim (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2000-03-28 10:33 EST by Steve Wills
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-03-30 09:46:21 EST
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Description Steve Wills 2000-03-28 10:33:21 EST

As root on the console (not X), start screen, then run vim inside screen.
Enter some text, then press the backspace key. It displays a literal "^?"
instead of actually backspacing. Note this doesn't happen when doing this
from X or as any other user.

Comment 1 Luca Bonomi 2000-03-30 09:46:59 EST

This happens to me when I "su" to another user and then run vi.
Note that it happens only for "konsole" and not for "kvt".
Maybe something wrong with the xterm terminfo.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-17 05:44:59 EDT

Looks like the "screen" termcap and terminfo were out of sync; I can't reproduce
it w/ ncurses 5.1-5+termcap 11.0.1-3 anymore.

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