On 07-Feb-01 at 07:06:53 David Talkington wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
>>I can see no difference between the postmaster account and my own; no
>>difference in any Xresource (Xdefault) settings, no difference in the
>>openssh config files; the same view/vim binary is used, etc etc.
>
> This may be off base, but the first thing I'd check is the TERM
> environment variable -- maybe isn't what it should be, for some
> reason? Setting it to vt100 has corrected weird problems like this
> for me.
>
Term is set to 'xterm' in all cases, which should be okay. I have found that
the 'problem' seems to be Xforwarding with ssh. If I use the '-x' option with
then ssh command then vim works fine. As to *why* this causes the messages I
still do not know.
Thanks for the reply,
John.
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