On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 00:27 -0800, Khoa Ton wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 12:43 +0100, Ron Yorston wrote: > > Khoa Ton wrote: > > >I'm using vi in the xterm Terminal console in FC5 Gnome Desktop. > > >When I'm scrolling down in a large file (/etc/passwd for example), > > >the last line doesn't properly clear, remnant text of the previous > > >line is left on the last line. > > > > I'm seeing similar behaviour, but with gnome-terminal. I've only > > had a quick look using an xterm but that seems to be OK. > > Yes, Ron is right. My mistake thinking that Gnome Terminal (2.14.0) > was xterm. Xterm does not exhibit this problem. > > Curiously, trying this again today with Gnome Terminal, I did not > see the problem. When the problem DOES NOT occur on Gnome Terminal, > I see the lower right cursor location numbers. When I don't see > these numbers is when the remnants remain. Okay, here's the quick recap and workaround to the problem of "VI editor in Gnome Terminal leaves text remnants on scroll" /bin/vi exhibits the problem with Gnome Terminal, but not xterm or the console window (ALT-F1 etc...). /usr/bin/vim does not exhibit this problem. The file /etc/profile.d/vim.sh runs on login and sets the alias vi=vim for normal users, but NOT for root. Hence, when the root user uses vi, he gets /bin/vi, which has the text remnant problem with Gnome Terminal. When a normal user uses vi, he gets /usr/bin/vim, which has no problems with Gnome Terminal. The workaround here would be to set an alias in root's .bashrc file to use /usr/bin/vim when vi is called. As far as I know, vim is more secure than vi and should be safer to run as root. Khoa
