From Bugzilla Helper: 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:
seems to be a vim issue
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.
Feedback from upstream: This is not a bug; it is OS dependent behavior. Stick something like this in your .Xresources: xterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
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.