-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Benjamin Low wrote:
> I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm and rxvt > where often the screen fails to be restored properly after running > vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily restores the terminal > screen after exiting. > > When I say 'fails to be restored', it's kind of like the current input > line is moved up the window, mixed in with the previous shell output. I've noticed the same thing. More info: When using vi, the cursor begins at (or just below) the last screen-line used for any insertion-deletion command, unless that command was undone with U or that command was done on the first line, or a few other random circumstances. > I'm guessing this is a termcap issue - I don't know much about > termcap/terminfo stuff, but from the terminfo man page I see there's a > restore_cursor capability, amongst others. I've tried setting my TERM > variable to variations of xterm, xterm-debian, rxvt, etc, but without > success. Possibly vi/less/etc are messing the variable this uses? > Any suggestions? Sorry... i have no idea how to fix it. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN9nGSL7M/9WKZLW5AQGqyQP/cCBWVLTKPx21b6BVd3OZc749tjm26P5j iAo6NkxMEgFda2MiGz/qHBPqxIU4iZyI/Ph7AweCI69jz71UtHpIqWXN7ZrG6vbr O7KKMHWF1WIGwasul/JlMJlSDXSnhM03SnmOKeItQAGcbsjmem7Olo9ZBQmA0unR uRgi0iCrkPg= =kmTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
