Donald Arseneau wrote:
Khoa Ton <khoa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I agree that this sounds like it might be a Gnome Terminal bug.
It is long-standing that gnome terminal is not xterm, yet people
and distros keep setting the TERM variable to xterm. Any apps
(any that use ncurses) that make use of xterms irregularities in
screen control will corrupt the screen.
Good point, Donald.
Taking your suggestion, I tried the following:
# TERM=gnome /bin/vi /etc/passwd
and the problem of text remnants on scroll still existed.
However, the following setting:
# TERM=ansi /bin/vi /etc/passwd
eliminated the text remnants on scroll problem!
So, based on this last piece of information:
1) Gnome Teminal does seem to be exhibiting bug on redraw, since
even setting TERM=gnome exhibited this issue with vim.
2) The workaround to use /bin/vi (secure version of /usr/bin/vim)
as root would be something like:
# alias vi="vi -T ansi"
I've updated to Bugzilla report with this information:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187192
Thanks,
Khoa
