Bug 55146 – xterm -e breaks terminfo?

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Bug 55146 - xterm -e breaks terminfo?

Summary:	xterm -e breaks terminfo?

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	athlon Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Mike A. Harris
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Reported:	2001-10-26 06:53 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-11-06 16:41:10 EST
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Description Need Real Name 2001-10-26 06:53:02 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011015

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 12:19:34 EST

seems to be a vim issue

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2001-11-06 12:21:06 EST

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 16:41:04 EST

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 13:56:00 EST

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.

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