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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115

Description of problem:
The string "^[34m~" is displayed for the first line after the EOF,
instead of "~".  This happens directly on a console xterm, and on a
remote xterm from RH9 via ssh, so the problem is in vim and not in
xterm (or ncurses or termcap).  Fresh default Workstation install (not
upgrade) of Fedora Core 2 Test 1, with no previous $HOME environment.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vim-common-6.2.253-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. date >foo
2. vi foo
3.
    

Actual Results:
Mon Feb 16 14:52:53 PST 2004
^[34m~ ~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
"foo" 1L, 29C                                              

Expected Results:
Mon Feb 16 14:52:53 PST 2004
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
~
"foo" 1L, 29C                                              

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