On Tue Mar 09, 2004 at 13:54:23 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What you're seeing is the terminals response to >the terminal query char ctrl-E. > >Most terminal proggies will respond with whatever >they've been told to respond with. > >This is for the benefit of commands which can set >your TERM variable by querying the terminal emulator. > >You can turn it off by setting the internal id of the >emulator. > >I dunno how to do this with rxvt, but with xterm it's > > -ti term_id > >I'd try setting term_id to the null string. >You could also do this with X11 resource files I guess. > >Things like Putty also allow you to set this string. > >Of course, you should probably ask your programs NOT >to output ^E :-)
Thanks Matt, and John. This is exactly the problem :) And yeah, I'll make sure I don't generate ^E :) Cheers, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html